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happier 音标拼音: [h'æpiɚ] a. 快乐的,幸福的 快乐的,幸福的 Happy \ Hap" py\ ( h[ a^] p" p[ y^]), a. [ Compar. { Happier} (- p[ i^]*[~ e] r); superl. { Happiest}.] [ From { Hap} chance.] 1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. [ 1913 Webster] Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well- being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts. [ 1913 Webster] Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. -- Ps. cxliv. 15. [ 1913 Webster] The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. [ 1913 Webster] One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] { Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. { Happy- go- lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy- going. " Happy- go- lucky carelessness." -- W. Black. [ 1913 Webster]
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