词源

源自中古英語 、、、 (“敏捷的，迅捷的；准备就绪的；有能的”)，古英語 (“善于学习的”)和古英語 (“能够拿稳的”)的合并形式，两者均源自 (“拿，取”) + 、 (联想后缀)，等价于 +‎ 。对比德語 、哥特語 ()、古諾爾斯語 (“拿”)。详见。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈnɪmbl̩/
• 韻部：-ɪmbəl

• （英国）音频：

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形容词

(比較級，最高級)

1. 擅长抓取的

   nimble fingers

   抓东西灵活的指头

2. 迅捷的，敏捷的

   He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.

   袭击者不敌他灵活的动作，他轻松挣脱了袭击者的手。

   • 1988, The Economist (volume 306, issues 7532-7539, page 13)

     Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.

3. 机敏谨慎的

   She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.

   她非常机敏，在任何场合都能随机应变。

   • 2020 5月 20, “Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”, 出自 Rail，頁號 12:

     "It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]

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动词

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. (不及物) 敏捷地移动
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings，頁號 72:

     Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.

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异序词