masterful

masterful
adjective
  1. powerful and able to control others
    强有力的;有支配力的
    he looked masculine and masterful.
    他看起来很有男子汉气概和驾驭能力。
  2. performed or performing very skilfully
    技艺高超的,精湛的
    a masterful assessment of the difficulties.
    对困难的精确估计。
派生
masterfully
adverb
masterfulness
noun
用法
  1. Some writers maintain a distinction between masterful and masterly, using masterful to mean ‘powerful and able to control othersa masterful tone of voiceand masterly to mean ‘with the skill of a mastera masterly performanceIn practice the two words overlap considerably in the second meaning: more than half the citations for masterful in the Oxford Reading Programme relate to the sense ‘with the skill of a master’
英语宝典
考试词汇表