这样用英语夸赞你的女神很漂亮，肯定能够赢得她的芳心！
气缸压力【pretty与beautiful】
小编今天要跟大家分享的这个主题，最初的想法来自《新概念英语青少版》1A的第六单元第11课的课文：
Annie: Who's that girl, Polly?
Polly: Which girl, Annie?
Annie: The girl over there. That tall girl with the Jenkins family.
Polly: Oh, that's Claire, our new neighbour. She's an art student.adapted
Annie: Oh, she's a very pretty girl.
Polly: Yes, she's clever, too. She's a nice girl.
Annie: Where's she from? Is she English?
英语寓言故事带翻译Polly: No, she isn't. She's American. She's from Washington.
Annie: Is her family here, too?
Polly: Yes. Her father's an accountant and her mother's a famous photographer. Look! Tha't her mother over there.
Annie: That woman in the expensive car?
Polly:That's right.
Annie: She's very pretty.
Polly: Pretty? She's beautiful!环球网校
Annie: What about her husband? Is he handsome?达成一致英文
Polly: Wait and e!
看来女人在一起，总会八一八哪个女人漂亮、哪个男人帅，呵呵！hepan
好了，言归正传！
相信心细的读者看到粗体部分的“gimpPretty? She's beautiful!"时，一定会心生疑问：pretty和beautiful不是都表示“漂亮现象用英语怎么说”吗？Polly怎么会强调Claire的妈妈不是pretty，而是beautiful呢？
相信不少人平常也是把pretty和beautiful当作同义词来混用的，也有的人可能会认为pretty多用来修饰年轻的女士，而beautiful一般用来修饰年龄偏大的女士。但我相信，当这些人读到这个对话之后，肯定就会对自己之前的想法产生质疑了。
那么，pretty和beautiful到底有什么差别？
小编查找了三本在线英英词典对pretty（作为形容词）的解释，得到的结果如下：
青春随想1.柯林斯词典（/dictionary/english/pretty）：pleasing or appealing in a delicate or graceful way
2.牛津英语词典（/definition/english/pretty）：(Of a person, especially a woman or child) attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful
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3.英语词源词典（/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&arch=pretty）：beautiful in a slight way
由以上三本词典的词条解释可以看出：与beautiful相比，pretty表示“漂亮”的程度要低得多，其漂亮的程度只能说是slight或delicate，也就是有那么一丢丢的漂亮！更为准确地说，pretty往往是指某人身上的某个特质让整个人显得还算漂亮；而beautiful往往是指这个人美得惊艳，整体很美，尽管漂亮是有外在美和内在美之分的。
为了帮助大家更直观地理解pretty所指的漂亮，我们来看上面的牛津英语词典给出的例子：
