delicately nurtured
Anglais[modifier le wikicode]
Étymologie[modifier le wikicode]
- Composé de delicately (« délicatement ») et de nurtured (« soigné »).
Locution adjectivale [modifier le wikicode]
| Nature | Forme |
|---|---|
| Positif | delicately nurtured \ˌdɛl.ɪ.kɪt.li ˈnɝ.tʃɚd\ ou \ˌdɛl.ɪ.kət.li ˈnɜː.tʃəd\ |
| Comparatif | more delicately nurtured \ˌmɔɹ ˌdɛl.ɪ.kɪt.li ˈnɝ.tʃɚd\ ou \ˌmɔː ˌdɛl.ɪ.kət.li ˈnɜː.tʃəd\ |
| Superlatif | most delicately nurtured \ˌmoʊst ˌdɛl.ɪ.kɪt.li ˈnɝ.tʃɚd\ ou \ˌməʊst ˌdɛl.ɪ.kət.li ˈnɜː.tʃəd\ |
delicately nurtured \ˌdɛl.ɪ.kɪt.li ˈnɝ.tʃɚd\ (États-Unis), \ˌdɛl.ɪ.kət.li ˈnɜː.tʃəd\ (Royaume-Uni)
- De bonne famille.
- You know what happened last time. It must be some place where no delicately nurtured woman or child could possibly live ; a country of bad hotels and comfortless travelling ; where we shall have to rough it, to work hard, to starve perhaps. — (Jerome K. Jerome, Three men on the Bummel, 1900)