the ability to deal with difficult or embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people synonym sensitivity(处事、言谈等的)圆通,老练,圆滑 Settling the dispute required great tact and diplomacy. 解决这个争端需要十分老练和娴熟的外交手腕。 She is not exactly known for her tact. 她并不以策略见称。
Extra ExamplesThe incident should have been handled with more tact by the police. 这个事件警方应该可以处理得更灵活一些。 The situation called for considerable tact. 这种情况需要很灵活才行。 Their host, who was the soul of tact, never mentioned the incident again. 他们的主人是极老练的人,再没有提及那次事件。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- have
- call for
- need
- …
- with tact
- a lack of tact
- tact and diplomacy
Word Originmid 17th cent. (denoting the sense of touch): via French from Latin tactus ‘touch, sense of touch’, from tangere ‘to touch’.