nifty

英 [ˈnɪfti]

美 [ˈnɪfti]

adj.  有技巧的; 精确的; 实用的; 灵便的
n.  俏皮话; 漂亮话

最高级：niftiest　

BNC.24265 / COCA.15561

牛津词典

adj.

• 有技巧的；精确的
  skilful and accurate
  1. There's some nifty guitar work on his latest CD.
     他最新的激光唱片里有一些吉他曲弹得非常精彩。
• 实用的；灵便的
  practical; working well
  1. a nifty little gadget for slicing cucumbers
     片黄瓜的小巧工具

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 整洁的;漂亮的;极好的;绝妙的
  If you describe something asnifty, you think it is neat and pleasing or cleverly done.
  1. Bridgeport was a pretty nifty place...
     布里奇波特是个十分漂亮的地方。
  2. It was a nifty arrangement, a perfect partnership.
     这是绝妙的安排，完美的搭档。

英英释义

adj

• very good
  1. he did a bully job
  2. a neat sports car
  3. had a great time at the party
  4. you look simply smashing
  Synonym:bang-upbullycorkingcrackingdandygreatgroovykeenneatnot bad(p)peachyslap-upswellsmashing

双语例句

• Other times, though, when you really just want a textual expression, it's a nifty shortcut.
  不过在其他时候，如果确实需要一个文本表达式，这是一种很好的缩写形式。
• That was a nifty trick the other night.
  你那天晚上的特技真是太漂亮了。
• The new kernel has a number of nifty new features and additions.
  这个新内核包含许多极好的新功能和增强功能。
• Giftspace – your friends never know what to buy you for birthday? Let them know what you really want with this nifty widget.
  你的朋友永远不知道在你生日的时候该买什么给你？这个Widget让他们知道什么是你最想要的礼物。
• Repeatedly set of alarm during conversations, then turn off with nifty remote control device.
  在跟对方交谈时，要重复地触动车子警报，然后用俏皮的遥控装置去关掉警报。
• Because clients to Morphia will send JSON documents to Gretty's endpoint, I'm also going to use Jackson, a nifty JSON-handling framework that already is part of Gretty's internals.
  因为Morphia的客户端会将JSON文档发送至Gretty端点，我还要使用Jackson（一个非常好的处理JSON的框架），它已经是Gretty的一部分。
• Match, Facebook, and that nifty smartphone are just tools means to ends intended to make life easier.
  Match.com也好，Facebook和智能手机也好，它们只是工具，归根结底，它们的目的是为了使生活更加便捷。
• It needs clever experiments; and such experiments need nifty devices.
  它需要精巧的实验；而这样的实验又需要极好的设备。
• Syntactic sugar and nifty APIs are intact, as in the case of normal-Java File types, which I'll show you later.
  语法糖衣和漂亮的API也没变，就像普通的JavaFile类型的情况一样，我稍后将展示这一点。
• If not done just right you lose all the nifty editor decorations that help with navigation.
  如果你没有做得刚刚好，那么你会失去所有帮助你导航的漂亮的编辑器控件。