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

• 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。
• I'm going to use Sequel Pro, which like most GUI-oriented tools provides a nifty interface to view tables and data, and provides a query console.
  我将使用SequelPro，它与大部分面向GUI的工具一样，提供了一个优秀的界面来查看表和数据，还提供了一个查询控制台。
• Smaller players, mostly startups, have also developed nifty applications that aim at the office market.
  较小的竞争者（通常刚刚起步），也已瞄准办公市场开发出时髦的应用。
• I know nifty tidbits from yelp and Wolfram Alpha.
  我知道“大众点评”上的花边新闻，我背后还有一个叫WolframAlpha的牛叉算法。
• 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。
• Hope you get lots of nifty gifties.
  也祝你得到许多漂亮的礼物。
• I'll show you how to implement your own nifty event system with very little fuss.
  本文我将向你展示如何轻松实现自己漂亮的事件系统。
• 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。
• That's a nifty little computer you have there!
  那就是你的小小的漂亮的计算机！
• Learn some nifty pen-flicking tricks.
  学习一些漂亮的玩笔技巧。