每课一词：新概念英语第1册第85课
接下来我们继续来看第85课的“每课一词”：
Lesson 85 Paris in the Spring
Hello, Ken.
Hi, George.
Have you just been to the cinema?
Yes, I have.
What's on?
“Paris in the Spring”.
Oh, I've already seen it. I saw it on television last year. It's an old film, but it's very good.
Paris is a beautiful city.
I have never been there. Have you ever been there, Ken?
Yes, I have. I was there in April.
Paris in the spring, eh?
It was spring, but the weather was awful. It rained all the time.
Just like London!
——选自《新概念英语》第一册，外语教学与研究出版社，1997年10月第1版
二、每课一词
beautiful
【源】
形成于十五世纪中期，源自beauty，意思是“pleasing to the eye (or ear) or mind or soul”。
【音】
['bjuːtɪfl]
【形】
beautiful由beauty和ful构成。
【义】
beautiful用作形容词，主要表示“美丽的；好的；出色的”。如：
She is, as it were, the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.她可说是我见过的最漂亮的姑娘。The weather has been beautiful this week.这星期天气一直很好。He produced his beautiful treatment of irrational numbers.他对无理数作了出色的处理。
三、更多拓展
beautiful, good-looking, handsome, pretty
这组形容词都可用于形容人或物，指“美丽”。其区别是：
1、beautiful少用于男性；handsome用于男性，指“英俊；潇洒”；pretty偶尔用于男性时含贬义。2、在修饰女性时, beautiful指“漂亮”，表示令人愉快的和谐与完美，侧重阴柔之美，气质高雅。
如:
She is not really beautiful, but she looks pretty when she smiles.她其实并不美,但笑起来很可爱。Some girls are good-looking; a few, but very few, are beautiful.有些姑娘长得还算好看,但是称得上 美丽动人的却很少。Would you describe that woman as handsome or beautiful?你觉得那女子是体态端庄还是貌美动 人?
——以上内容选编自：http://dict.cn/beautiful。
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