Masterly

(a.) Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy.

(a.) Imperious; domineering; arbitrary.

(adv.) With the skill of a master.

录入:皮埃尔

• We have opened all the public-houses in the place, and left our adversary nothing but the beer-shops--masterly stroke of policy that, my dear Sir, eh? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Shall we extract Mr. Pickwick's masterly description of that heartrending scene? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Ability to use even in a masterly way an established technique gives no warranty of artistic work, for the latter also depends upon an animating idea. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The presentation of my own character is masterly in the extreme. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The Philosophy of Creation has been treated in a masterly manner by the Rev. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• She often called up Thérèse in the middle of the night, and made her listen while she touched the organ in a very masterly style. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He was familiar with it, and said it was in the opinion of the whole Cabinet the most masterly thing that had appeared on the subject. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Folk would say--folk that knowed what a true stave was--'Surely, surely that's never the same man that I saw handling the clarinet so masterly by now! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Here Raffles rose and stalked once or twice up and down the room, swinging his leg, and assuming an air of masterly meditation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• My fingers, said Elizabeth, do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

校对:拉里