Delicate/Elaborate/Exquisite/Ingenious/Elegant 精致的，精巧的

Delicate/Elaborate/Exquisite/Ingenious/Elegant 这些词都可以表示“精致的，精巧的” 含义：

Delicate：

1. 娇小的、纤弱的；（Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.）

• Those clothes are made from delicate lace.
• The negotiations were very delicate .

2. 显现出细小的结构或者细线

• Her face was delicate .
• The spider wove a delicate web.
• There was a delicate pattern of frost on the window.

3. 用于易损坏的物品

• Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.

Elaborate： 1. 精致的、精心设计的；（Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.）

• The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Exquisite： 1. 特别的精美；（Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.）

• This exquisite embroidery won people's great admiration.
• The little box contained his special gift to his wife, a diamond brooch, not large but exquisite in design.
• And then to look below and to see the model of the Statue of Freedom, it’s an exquisite sculpture.
• Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

Ingenious: 1. 有独创性的，机灵的；（Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.）

• This fellow is ingenious ; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.
• He thinks it was an ingenious experiment and perhaps even representative of the future of advertising.
• Something that is ingenious is very clever and involves new ideas, methods, or equipment.

Elegant: 1. 优雅的，高雅的；（If you describe a person or thing as elegant, you mean that they are pleasing and graceful in appearance or style.）

• That required flexibility and performance, but also the ability to express elegant interfaces.
• Her rough speech and impolite manner were indeed a sharp contrast to her elegant clothes.

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