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

• Bridgeport was a pretty nifty place
  布里奇波特是个十分漂亮的地方。
• We churn out one nifty gadget after another, with bigger screens and less buttons.
  时髦的发明一个接一个：屏幕越来越大，按键越来越少。
• This is the second article in this mini-series, and we've got a pretty nifty little Ajax application.
  本文是一个小型系列文章中的第二篇，至此，我们已经得到了一个很棒的小Ajax应用程序。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。