Tony (輕巧時髦 快樂 假仙壓抑 裝飾建築 單字大集合)

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–adjective Informal. 

high-toned; stylish: a tony [nightclub]. 





　

If they don't score a sale, "I'll be sending DVDs out to my family and friends," Alexander jokes.



It's not a joke, especially when Toronto buyers know that Sony-backed "Cadillac Records" has just wrapped, boasting a tonier cast led by Oscar-winner Brody, Beyonce Knowles and Jeffrey Wright. 



The harsh reality: Even if critics and Toronto auds embrace the picture, Alexander and company may need to brush up on the latest Indiewood trend: self-distribution.









The Lightbox will pull a lot of festival activity two miles south from Yorkville, 



known for the tony shops and restaurants 



along Bloor Street, to a resurgent downtown near the Lake Ontario shore. That’s a shift not only for event planners and industry pros doing the fest shuffle but also for hotels and many other players in the $100 million-plus civic spending spree.









1. 輕巧時髦

jaunty 

jocular jugular rakish facetious

chichi 

tony

cherubic



winsome

this never more in evidence than with last year's [winning] and [winsome] "Moonrise Kingdom."



snug slinky

pert 

perky spry frisky sassy sappy 

caper feisty spunky

frisky 

impish escapade shenanigans

nifty 

Sol's been going over the property line issue and he wouldn't go into details, but he seems to think there's a nifty way out of this.

nitty-gritty



1.5 白目無禮

pert  

brash insolent indolent 

frivolous  

frivolity

I mean, frankly is this a time for frivolity? Is this a time to lose one's sense of humor?



curt laconic

terse

terse (polish, brusqueness) 

succinct (originally)



shoddy

of inferior workmanship

intentionally rude or inconsiderate

a shoddy [bookcases] [behavior]

flippant

but isn't much help, except for adding [ir]relevancies and [flippant] asides.

Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on [flippancy].



1.6 快樂

Snicker





2. 假仙 "壓抑"

stilted 

Director Jack Clayton's [sluggish] pacing, however, made the film a [stilted] literary artifact rather than an emotionally complex story.

tart  

panache pastiche histrionic 



Stoic 

asceticism hedonistic mortify



stultify stifle muffle

smother 

smolder

Stagnation 



coy decoy 

cloy

[Chocolates] start to cloy if you eat too many.

[its jigsawed time line] begin[s] to form a whole picture, cloy[s] with archness. 

molasses

icky (excessively sweet)

luscious 



demure decorum prim pent-up

demur

Tom’s [concerns] over finances caused him to demur. 

She asks Rodney to sleep with her, but he [demurs] ("I am sure my brother will be happy to oblige").

When her parole officer suggests school or jobs that might match her intelligence, she demur[s].

sedate

vial 

pour out vials of [wrath]

Two packs of Vantage, please. Anything else? Yes, a vial of nsulin. Just kidding.

travail



2.5 孕育構思

conceit

incubation 

incubator

gestate





3. 裝飾

3.4 服飾 Smock





lacerate Convulsion

sliver

shard

cuts herself with a shard of [glass] in an intimate place 

There is a [shard] of the punishing Teutonic fairy tale in everything he dreams up, 

Elizabeth looks at Alma, seeming to know the [glass] shard was not an accident,

laminate 

The document is encased in plastic, with the laminating [machine] he has also brought along.

crate 

They're still driving around in the old crate they bought [20 years ago].  

a crate of [oranges]

crucible

stoke

both directors [stoke] up the pressure as calmly as someone putting a [kettle] on to boil.

grate

His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.  

to grate on the [ear].  

to grate a [carrot]. 

to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup. 



ramshackle

dilapidated 

veer 

The speaker kept veering [from] his [main topic].

The car veered [off] the [road]. 

veneer 

a [cruel] person with a veneer of [kindliness].  

Pallet 

incognito

who helps to [pass] her incognito [kin] [off] as a man in order to avoid detection. 

He'd rather look at all those famous people incognito.





3.5 建築

Smock

















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