词汇释义
supple TEM8IELTS GRE
UK /ˈsʌp.əl/ US /ˈsʌp.əl/
1. adj, A supple object or material bends or changes shape easily without cracking or breaking.(物体、材料)易弯曲的，柔软的，柔韧的
2. adj, A supple person can move and bend their body very easily.人灵活的，柔韧性好的
外刊例句
1. A narrow win for Bayern Munich on the night – and a comfortable Barcelona victory overall – was just reward for Luis Enrique's team, who were again wonderfully supple and incisive in attack when it mattered.(The Guardian - Sport)
2. I think that a child does not feel the sublime because a child need not, perhaps cannot, confront the limitations of his or her language – language, for a child, is already miraculous, supple, generous in its association, tragic, hilarious, disproportionate and huge.(The Guardian)
3. The app would then function as both journey planner and universal payment platform, knitting everything from driverless cars and nimble little buses to shared bikes and ferries into a single, supple mesh of mobility.(The Guardian)
4. Maillot's choreography showcases all the delicate expressiveness of her long arms and cantilevered back, and while it maximises the virtuoso power of her supple legs and feet, it also probes the pressures and conflicts she carries with her as a world-class ballerina.(The Guardian)
5. If supple, network-mediated coordination of this type could help people manage the highly dynamic circumstances that followed Sandy's landfall, might it perhaps also prove useful under less volatile conditions?(The Guardian)
6. Messrs Gilberto and Getz would return the following year with a worldwide smash, the definitive version of "The Girl from Ipanema", an upbeat song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes and inspired by a supple 15-year-old carioca, but which deals obliquely with an awareness of mortality.Mr Oliveira's involvement in the Carnegie Hall show was merely prologue.(The Economist)
7. It requires a supple upper body, graceful hands and arms, and speedy, percussive feet.(The Economist)
8. Though deemed imperfect for dance she is "not very supple"—Polina is accepted into ballet school as a young girl.(The Economist)
9. Certainly in his early works the "young eagle" could seem a rather wooden bird, determinedly plotting a formal course rather than flying freely.Although Brahms's composition grew ever more relaxed and supple, some listeners still discern an occasional disjunction in his pieces between real inspiration and the bald application of method with its "stink of the workshop".(The Economist)
10. In four districts where the Bodos are in the majority the tribe is governed by the Bodoland Territorial Council, which enjoys considerable autonomy under India's supple constitution.(The Economist)
11. The 24 directors who oversee the International Monetary Fund need supple minds.(The Economist)
12. For Europe, the secrets of greater social mobility are, first, tough redistribution policies that particularly benefit those at the bottom; and, especially in Nordic countries, a more supple and less class-ridden education system, running from top to bottom.(The Economist)
13. Now Mexico, too, has increased the pressure on the traffickers, just as Colombia has done in the south. Ever supple, the drugs business has sought new premises.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
become, get, keep, remain, stay supple | extremely, very, fairly
词汇来源
c. 1300, "soft, tender," from Old French souple, sople "pliant, flexible; humble, submissive" (12c.), from Gallo-Roman *supples, from Latin supplex "submissive, humbly begging, beseeching, kneeling in entreaty, suppliant," literally "bending, kneeling down," perhaps an altered form of *supplacos "humbly pleading, appeasing," from sub "under" (see sub-) + placare "to calm, appease, quiet, soothe, assuage," causative of placere "to please"
近义词
flexible, limber, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, willowy
反义词
inflexible, rigid, stiff, stiffened
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