the ability to deal with difficult or embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people（处事、言谈等的）圆通，老练，圆滑 synonym sensitivity- 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 Examples- The 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 Dictionaryadjectiveverb + tactprepositionphrases- a lack of tact
- tact and diplomacy
See full entry Word Originmid 17th cent. (denoting the sense of touch): via French from Latin tactus ‘touch, sense of touch’, from tangere ‘to touch’.