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bated

/beyt/US // beɪt //UK // (beɪt) //

呵护,呵护着,呵护有加,呵斥

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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

  • Throughout Christmas eve and day, the world is monitoring with bated breath.

  • Hawking took 10 minutes to build up the answer on his computer and the audience waited with bated breath.

  • We all may have waited with bated breath for Wiig's big, first post-Bridesmaids, post-SNL star vehicle.

  • All was ready, and as they started a thousand eyes followed them, and with bated breath their comrades watched them as they rode.

  • Up early and bated at Petersfield in the room which the King lay in lately at his being there.

  • She listened now with bated breath, thinking that by some unconscious cry she might have aroused the others.

  • Up early, and bated at Petersfield, in the room which the King lay in lately at his being there.

  • Then, drawing near the wall in the direction from which the noise came, they applied their ears with bated breath.