及物动词
名词
1. 优美；优雅
If someone moves with grace, they move in a smooth, controlled, and attractive way.
2. 修养；涵养
If someone behaves with grace, they behave in a pleasant, polite, and dignified way, even when they are upset or being treated unfairly.
3. 风度；体面
The graces are the ways of behaving and doing things which are considered polite and well-mannered.
4. 宽限期；延缓期
Grace is used in expressions such as a day's grace and a month's grace to say that you are allowed that amount of extra time before you have to finish something.
5. 为…增色；使更加优美
If you say that something graces a place or a person, you mean that it makes them more attractive.
6. 给…增光;使生辉
If you say that someone important will grace an event or an organization, you mean that they have agreed to be present at the event or to be part of the organization.
7. （上帝的）恩宠，恩典
In Christianity and some other religions, grace is the kindness that God shows to people because he loves them.
8. （饭前或饭后的）谢恩祷告
When someone says grace before or after a meal, they say a prayer in which they thank God for the food and ask Him to bless it.
9. （对公爵、公爵夫人或大主教的尊称）大人，阁下，夫人
You use expressions such as Your Grace and His Grace when you are addressing or referring to a duke, duchess, or archbishop.
10. see also: coup de grace;saving grace
11. 突然失利；过气；受冷落
If someone falls from grace, they suddenly stop being successful or popular.
12. 通情达理地做;知趣地做
If someone has the good grace to do something, they are polite enough or honest enough to do it.
13. 若非上帝保佑，要不是我福大命大（我也会遭此不幸）
If you are talking about someone who is in a bad situation and you say 'There but for the grace of God go I', you mean that you are lucky not to be in the same situation as them and you feel sympathy for them.
14. 情愿地/ 不情愿地；欣然地/不乐意地
If you do something unpleasant with good grace or with a good grace, you do it cheerfully and without complaining. If you do something with bad grace or with a bad grace, you do it unwillingly and without enthusiasm.
15. 为…所赞同;得到…的欢心
If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
16. airs and graces - see air
1. a disposition to kindness and compassion
e.g. the victor's grace in treating the vanquished
2. (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God
e.g. God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners
there but for the grace of God go I
Synonym: grace of Godfree grace
3. a sense of propriety and consideration for others
e.g. a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace
Synonym: seemliness
4. elegance and beauty of movement or expression
e.g. a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace
Synonym: gracility
5. a short prayer of thanks before a meal
e.g. their youngest son said grace
Synonym: blessingthanksgiving
6. (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God
the state of one who is under such divine influence
e.g. the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin
it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church
the Virgin lived in a state of grace
Synonym: saving gracestate of grace