finesse

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fi·nesse1 /fəˈnes/ noun [uncountableU]

GOOD ATif you do something with finesse, you do it with a lot of skill and style 手段，策略，手腕

Dario played the sonata with great finesse.

达里奥以高超的技艺弹奏了这首奏鸣曲。

Examples from the Corpus

finesse• The stats make her a strange hybrid of power and finesse, a combination that she resisted for a while.• The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.• Flame control: a certain amount of finesse is required to fine tune the heat output.• It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheek humour.

finesse2 verb [transitiveT]

1. DEAL WITHto handle a situation well, but in a way that is slightly deceitful 用巧妙的〔但略带欺骗性的〕手段处理

2. American EnglishAmEGOOD AT to do something with a lot of skill and style 巧妙地做

Examples from the Corpus

finesse• Roberts finessed his arrival, speaking to Fernandez privately about their shared responsibilities.• Kemp uses his creativity to find excuses which are meant to finesse problematic moments.• Mr Chen's approach is to finesse the problem of reunification through a mixture of goodwill and verbal subtlety.• I had a miserable quantitative background and ended up copying some assignments and finessing the rest as best I could.• The guard would know he was trying to get away and finesse the whole thing!• Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff.

Origin finesse1

(1500-1600) French fin; → FINE1

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 18503 COCA: 13491

finesse

Skill, talent and ability: experience, ability, skill...