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mellowed

/mel-oh/US // ˈmɛl oʊ //UK // (ˈmɛləʊ) //

醇化的,醇厚的,醇化,醇化了

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    mel·low·er, mel·low·est.

    • : soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
    • : well-matured, as wines.
    • : soft and rich, as sound, tones, color, or light.
    • : made gentle and compassionate by age or maturity; softened.
    • : friable or loamy, as soil.
    • : mildly and pleasantly intoxicated or high.
    • : pleasantly agreeable; free from tension, discord, etc.: a mellow neighborhood.
    • : affably relaxed; easygoing; genial: a mellow teacher who is very popular with her students.
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    • : to make or become mellow.
n.名词 noun
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    • : Slang. a state, atmosphere, or mood of ease and gentle relaxation.
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    • : mellow out, Slang. to become detached from worry, strife, stress, etc.; relax: After final exams let's go down to the beach and mellow out.to make more relaxed, agreeable, workable, etc.; soften or smooth: Chopin really mellows me out when I'm feeling tense.

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Examples

  • Wilting down chard with a bit of garlic and chile flakes mellows its flavor out into something resembling spinach.

  • Her team aims to sample a variety of puppy personalities for the big game, from the mellow to the natural athletes and everything in between.

  • Even as I went hard on trainees, displacing my anger onto them as had happened to me, I dreamed of finding a mellower kitchen or creating my own, once I’d paid those dues.

  • In the absence of culantro, a combination of green onion and cilantro delivers a similar, albeit slightly more mellow, effect.

  • But a decade had passed, and Cosby had mellowed, and when he was offered the prize for a third time in 2009, he accepted.

  • In the glass, the color is mellowed by the oak and is a mossier green.

  • Now, at the age of 46, he has been mellowed by an all-access pass to literary America, winning most of the prizes around.

  • Come to think of it, whenever I was cranky or sick, a little nursing usually mellowed us both out.

  • But for anyone who dreamed that Benedict had mellowed with age, the decision to hang the LCWR out to dry is a rude awakening.

  • They tone down its severity of style, and cast gently into it a mellowed light akin to that of the “dim religious” order.

  • And what he had worked out once in cold philosophy, now mellowed into religion, mystical sometimes, but beautiful and saving.

  • Heard from granite colonnade or beneath cool linen awning, it was mellowed by distance, to monotonous music.

  • She missed the soft blue haze that mellowed the landscape among the English hills.

  • The glare of the California sunshine, filtering through the canvas, became mellowed, warm and golden.