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。
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
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’