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clement

/klem-uhnt/US // ˈklɛm ənt //UK // (ˈklɛmənt) //

洁具,洁丽雅,洁丽华,洁莉雅

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : mild or merciful in disposition or character; lenient; compassionate: A clement judge reduced his sentence.
    • : mild or temperate; pleasant.

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Examples

  • The pair realized that the region of clement temperatures around a star changes as the star evolves and changes brightness.

  • By the end of the 1920s, moralists and cops had largely given up on trying to crack down on daters, Clement says.

  • The cultural weather was particularly clement for musical theater writers during this period.

  • When a neighbor (Suzanne Clement) takes a shine to the family, a strange ménage-a-trois of sorts forms.

  • A recent exhibition of the artist Clement Valla featured objects and prints, but the only thing sold to collectors were TIFFs.

  • Democrats then returned fire on Clement Haynsworth and Harrold Carswell.

  • Clement is a highly respected lawyer with a sterling pedigree.

  • He elbowed, criticised, scolded and toadied to Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx and other office-holders.

  • The symbol of the heaven-bound ship— —is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria as being in vogue in the second century.

  • It was doubtless a seal of this character to which Clement of Alexandria alludes as bearing the —the ship in full sail for heaven.

  • The earliest long-case clocks were made by William Clement about 1680, and within the same year Tompion was making them too.

  • But Clement only laughed and spread out his hands, for Corsica chooses to ignore the game laws.