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precious

Word family 
pre·cious1 /ˈpreʃəs/ ●●○ adjectiveadj
1  EMOTIONALsomething that is precious is valuable and important and should not be wasted or used without care 寶貴的
precious seconds/minutes/hours/time
We cannot afford to waste precious time.
我們浪費不起寶貴的時間。
planes delivering precious supplies of medicine and food
運送藥品、食品等寶貴物資的飛機
our planet’s precious resources
我們星球上的寶貴資源
2  VALUErare and worth a lot of money 珍稀的；貴重的
precious gem/stone/jewel
a statue covered with precious jewels
嵌滿貴重寶石的雕塑
→5 see picture at 見圖 stone
3  IMPORTANTprecious memories or possessions are important to you because they remind you of people you like or events in your life 〔記憶或擁有物〕珍貴的，寶貴的
precious to
The doll is cracked and worn, but it’s precious to me because it was my mother’s.
這個娃娃又破又舊，可對我來說很寶貴，因爲它是我媽媽用過的。
► see thesaurus at valuable
4  [only before noun] spokenANNOY used to show that you are annoyed that someone seems to care too much about something 寶貝似的〔用於對某人似乎太過注重某事物表示反感〕
I never touched your precious car!
我根本沒碰過你的寶貝汽車！
5  spoken used to speak to someone you love, especially a baby or small child 寶貝〔對所愛之人，尤指對嬰兒或小孩的稱呼〕
Come sit by me, precious.
坐到我旁邊來，寶貝。
6  American EnglishAmE spoken used in order to describe someone or something that is small and pretty 可愛的 SYN cute
The kids gave me that ornament. Isn’t it precious?
那件裝飾品是孩子們送我的，是不是很可愛？
7  NATURAL formal too concerned about style or detail in your writing or speech, so that it does not seem natural 〔言辭〕矯揉造作的
His early work is rather precious and juvenile.
他的早期作品相當做作而且幼稚。
—preciously adverbadv
—preciousness noun [uncountableU]
n COLLOCATIONS
nouns
time
My time is precious, and I don't want to waste it.
seconds/moments/minutes/hours
We knew we only had a few more precious hours together.
resources
The government has squandered the country’s precious resources.
commodity
Water is a precious commodity.
asset
The organization’s most precious asset is its staff.
gift
Her illness made her appreciate more the precious gift of life.
Examples from the Corpus
precious• Make sure you keep a careful eye on it - it's a gem and just as precious!• Back at the granary he persuaded the farm-worker to exchange it for the precious antique.• Hello, precious, are you having fun?• You could help us out, in fact, if Maria doesn't mind handing her precious camera over.• But she was not about to reveal such precious dreams to him.• The novel may be too precious for some, but it's good summer reading.• She felt a stab of resentment for the Church's claims on her precious holiday.• What a precious little baby girl!• The robe was encrusted with precious metals and stones.• That bear is Ellie's most precious possession.• But twice a year, at the church, the group sells rosaries made with precious stones to raise funds.• For this reason temples and cathedrals frequently maintained artificers schooled in the use of precious substances.• Apparently I'd ruined her precious towel.• Antelope herds in the Rocky Mountains have lost precious winter pasture.
precious resources• They began to suspect that time would be one of their most precious resources.• Smart governments know that by allowing trade, nations gently coerce their citizens to shift precious resources from low-productivity to high-productivity industries.• On this basis, precious resources have been allocated to mass literacy campaigns all over the Third World.
precious gem/stone/jewel• A whole roomful of precious stones.• Dry camel droppings tied in bits of plastic bag were gold and precious gems.• He showed her the fruits he had gathered in the garden, and they had turned to precious stones.• The dome was entire gold, standing upon three hundred pillars of precious stones.• Her designs are classical and very delicate, mainly in 18-carat gold jewellery and set with precious stones and pearls.• Metaphorical bloodstains drench these precious stones, however, which makes a visit to the exhibition both eerie and wearisome.• By comparison with gold, jade or precious stones pearls are much less durable.• On many important icons, precious gems relating to the colour and function of each chakra are used instead of metal.
precious to• These schools are too precious to the community to close them.
precious2 adverbadv informal
precious little/few informal LITTLE/NOT MUCHvery little or very few 非常少
I had precious little time for reading.
我很少有時間看書。
Examples from the Corpus
precious little/few• At the moment there is precious little.• Food shopping takes time, a commodity of which most of us have precious little.• From which it follows that many will choose precious little attachment.• I had no answers and precious little consolation to offer him to mitigate the facts.• Eight voices then, and precious little else.• She had to find some other way to save Angel's precious little life, and find it quickly.• Once the polarization occurs, there is precious little Mrs Clinton can do about it.• There are precious few seats inside the court room.• There was precious little to learn.
Examples from the Corpus
precious• When the doors were opened tothe public, precious few came.• From which it follows that many will choose precious little attachment.• The rest of us have precious little influence over the global economy, though our lives are deeply affected by it.• The other difficulty is I have precious little instinct for business ventures.• While the photographs are excellent and plentiful. there is precious little video.• Food shopping takes time, a commodity of which most of us have precious little.
Origin precious1
(1200-1300) Old French precios, from Latin pretiosus, from pretium; → PRICE1

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