2N-COUNT 美女;美人 A beauty is a beautiful woman. 美女;美人 [journalism]
She is known as a great beauty.
她是出了名的大美女。
SYN good-looker, looker [informal, mainly US], lovely [slang], sensation
3N-COUNT 极好的事物 You can say that something is a beauty when you think it is very good. 极好的事物 [informal]
The pass was a real beauty, but the shot was poor.
传得非常漂亮,但是临门一脚太臭了。
4N-COUNT [usually plural]魅力;美好;吸引人之处 The beauties of something are its attractive qualities or features. 魅力;美好;吸引人之处 [literary]
He was beginning to enjoy the beauties of nature.
他开始享受大自然之美。
5ADJ [ADJ n]美容的Beauty is used to describe people, products, and activities that are concerned with making women look beautiful. 美容的
Additional beauty treatments can be booked in advance.
额外的美容服务可以提前预订。
6N-COUNT 好处;妙处;优点 If you say that a particular feature is the beauty of something, you mean that this feature is what makes the thing so good. 好处;妙处;优点
There would be no effect on animals—that's the beauty of such water-based materials.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingnessJohn KeatsEndymion
If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God inventsRobert BrowningFra Lippo Lippi
`Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to knowJohn KeatsOde on a Grecian Urn
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it isNadine GordimerA Bolter and the Invincible Summer
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodnessLeo TolstoyThe Kreutzer Sonata
Beauty vanishes; beauty passesWalter de la MareEpitaph
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from usEugène IonescoPresent Past - Past Present
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other formsRalph Waldo EmersonThe Conduct of Life
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of manFedor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov
All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is bornW.B. YeatsEaster 1916
Beauty is feared, more than deathWilliam Carlos WilliamsPaterson
Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of natureCamille PagliaSexual Personae
Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates themDavid HumeEssays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown backVoltairePhilosophical Dictionary
I always say beauty is only sin deepSaki (H.H. Munro)Reginald
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happinessStendhalOn Love
beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husbandAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?George Bernard ShawMan and Superman
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about itW.Somerset MaughamCakes and Ale
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say `You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair'Anton ChekhovUncle Vanya
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favourite work of artLorenz HartMy Funny Valentine
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?Christopher MarloweDoctor Faustus
Beauty and Truth, though never found, are worthy to be soughtRobert Williams BuchananTo David in Heaven
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautifulJohn Constable