(thông tục) thú vị, dễ chịu; tốt, hấp dẫn

a nice day

một ngày đẹp

nice weather

tiết trời đẹp

a nice walk

một cuộc đi chơi thú vị

the room was nice and warm

căn phòng ấm áp dễ chịu

Xinh đẹp

Ngoan; tốt, tử tế, chu đáo

how nice of you to help me in my work!

anh giúp đỡ tôi trong công việc, thật là tử tế quá

Tỉ mỉ, câu nệ; khó tính, khảnh, cầu kỳ

Don't be too nice about it

Không nên quá câu nệ về cái đó

to be too nice about one's food

khảnh ăn

Sành sỏi, tế nhị, tinh vi, kỹ

a nice audience

những người xem sành sõi

to have a nice ear for music

sành nhạc

a nice question

một vấn đề tế nhị

a nice shade of meaning

một ý tế nhịi

a nice investigation

một cuộc điều tra kỹ lưỡng

a nice observer

người quan sát tinh tế

(mỉa mai) hay ho

You've got us into a nice mess!

Thật anh đã đẩy chúng tôi vào một hoàn cảnh hay ho gớm!

Chính xác (cân)

weighed in the nicest scales

được cân ở cái cân chính xác nhất

nice and

rất, lắm

socialist construction is going nice and fast

xây dựng xã hội chủ nghĩa tiến rất nhanh

the way is a nice long one

con đường dài lắm, con đường dài dằng dặc

nice work if you can get it!

trúng mánh nhé! vớ bở nhé!

dễ chịu

Adj.

Pleasant, agreeable, amiable, amicable, friendly,cordial, warm, gracious, warm-hearted, kind, kindly, outgoing,charming, genial, delightful, courteous, polite, refined,gentlemanly, ladylike, winsome, likeable, attractive: They areone of the nicest couples I have ever met.

Good,satisfactory, commendable, worthy, worthwhile: The manager saidthat I had done a nice job in preparing the specifications.

Good, fine, superb, superior, attentive, sharp, acute, keen,careful, exact, exacting, rigorous; precise, accurate, unerring,scrupulous, meticulous, punctilious, discriminating,discriminative, perceptive, delicate, fastidious, flawless,faultless, subtle, strict, close, small, slight, minute,complex, complicated, intricate: A diamond cutter must have anice eye for detail. It is difficult to maintain nicedistinctions of meaning among certain words, given that peopleare so careless with their speech these days. 4 delicate,subtle, sensitive, exquisite, hair-splitting, over-nice, fine,critical, ticklish, dangerous, precarious, perilous, Colloqhairy: The matter of Hong Kong requires some nice politicalnegotiations.

Trim, well turned out, tidy, neat, fine: Dontyou want to look nice for your birthday party?

Nice and -pleasantly, delightfully, pleasingly, agreeably, enjoyably,gratifyingly, satisfyingly, comfortably: Its nice and warm bythe fire.

Adj.

Pleasant, agreeable, satisfactory.

(of a person)kind, good-natured.

Iron. bad or awkward (a nice mess you'vemade).

A fine or subtle (a nice distinction). b requiringcareful thought or attention (a nice problem).

Fastidious;delicately sensitive.

Punctilious, scrupulous (were not toonice about their methods).

(foll. by an adj., often with and)satisfactory or adequate in terms of the quality described (anice long time; nice and warm).

Nicely adv. niceness n. nicish adj. (also niceish). [ME, =stupid, wanton f. OF, = silly, simple f. L nescius ignorant (asnescience: see NESCIENT)]