Word familynounpresenteeismpresentnesspresentabilitypresentablenesspresentationpresentationismpresentationistpresenteepresenterpresentivenesspresentmentadverbpresentlypresentablyadjectivepresent-daypresentablepresentationalpresentativepresentivepresent
SMART/WELL-DRESSEDtidy and attractive enough to be seen or shown to someone 拿得出手的;像样的;体面的
She’s a presentable young woman.
她是位优雅大方的年轻女子。
Let’s tidy up and make the house a bit more presentable.
我们来把房子收拾得更像样一点吧。
I must go and make myself presentable.
我得去打扮一下。
—presentablyadverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
presentable• This man was in every way presentable.• This part of the garage was a little more presentable.• We don't have to wear suits for work, but we do have to look presentable.• Helen watched my grandmother with a peculiarhorror, for my grandmother had abandoned all attempts to make herself presentable.• The other men were even worse, even less presentable.• Doing it from scratch basically down to writing the page in that make it look presentable, and links to other pages.• I make sureMum looks presentable on Mondays and Thursdays.• And this process of making order is presentable only subjectively and in the present.• Although Bitstream players often sound a little smoother and more presentable, the process is difficult to engineer successfully.• It will take about $7,500 to make the house presentable to buyers.• Arnold was a very presentable young fellow.
make myself presentable• I made myself presentable and sallied forth.
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, look拿得出手;看上去體面▸➤make sb使某人體面◇Could you try and make yourself a little more presentable?你能試着打扮打扮,讓自己更像樣點兒嗎?ADVERB➤very很體面▸➤perfectly絕對可接受◇She was not exactly good-looking, but perfectly presentable.她並不是很漂亮,但是絕對上得了台面。➤halfway, quite, reasonably, somewhat (especially NAmE) 有些體面;相當體面;還算拿得出手