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temperateness

/tem-per-it, tem-prit/US // ˈtɛm pər ɪt, ˈtɛm prɪt //UK // (ˈtɛmpərɪt, ˈtɛmprɪt) //

气度,温度,脾气,气温

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
    • : moderate as regards indulgence of appetite or passion, especially in the use of alcoholic liquors.
    • : not excessive in degree, as things, qualities, etc.
    • : moderate in respect to temperature; not subject to prolonged extremes of hot or cold weather.
    • : Microbiology. existing in infected host cells but rarely causing lysis.

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Examples

  • These infections are primarily detected during winter and spring in temperate climates and are found year-round in tropical and subtropical areas.

  • Something like a tenth of the people who live in the South and the Southwest — from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Southern California — decide to move north in search of a better economy and a more temperate environment.

  • The team still doesn’t know if the gas actually originates at the “temperate” heights observed in the Venusian clouds, or whether it’s produced closer to the surface and then rises.

  • In temperate climates, workers of this species forage alone, often for beetles.

  • Prairies are a type of temperate grassland, similar to savannahs or steppes.

  • Houston, where I have been working as a consultant, hardly qualifies as one of the most physically attractive or temperate cities.

  • Many Indians regard it as a quasi-mythical place, a land of lush hills, temperate climate, martial men, and handsome women.

  • From a lazy young man about town, I had become active, energetic, temperate, and above all—oh, above all else—ambitious.

  • Oregonians suffer through them in anticipation of the blissfully sunny and temperate summer.

  • In conversation, he is no less articulate, but he is decidedly more temperate, cheerful, even conciliatory.

  • The climate of those mountains is cold rather than temperate, and less healthful than sickly.

  • The same change occurs, though to a much smaller extent, in the soil in temperate climates.

  • He was of frugal and temperate habits, a wiry man at the height of his physical powers, with lean flanks and a deep chest.

  • While the tobacco of the tropics is the finest in flavor, the more temperate regions produce the finest and best colored leaf.

  • Doubtless the varieties grown in the tropics will be much finer than the varieties grown in a more temperate region.