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bate

/beyt/US // beɪt //UK // (beɪt) //

篦子,篦子沟,篦头,篦箕

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v.有主动词 verb
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    bat·ed, bat·ing.

    • : to moderate or restrain: unable to bate our enthusiasm.
    • : to lessen or diminish; abate: setbacks that bated his hopes.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bat·ed, bat·ing.

    • : to diminish or subside; abate.

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Examples

  • Jonathan Bate argues in the TLS that Swinburne was a master metrician as well as a pioneer in changing sexual attitudes.

  • The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.

  • He bate th' champeen iv the' wurruld last week be a scoore iv wan hundhred an' eighty-two to siventy-six.

  • De kote had to bate de trap wid one warmint ter catch anudder one.

  • Pend upon it boss, Miss Alice is ergwine to bite at the hook fore yu flings out de bate.

  • I nevertheless still loved Truth, and would bate no jot of my allegiance to her.