tempering 的 3 个定义
- a particular state of mind or feelings.
- habit of mind, especially with respect to irritability or patience, outbursts of anger, or the like; disposition: an even temper.
- heat of mind or passion, shown in outbursts of anger, resentment, etc.
- (8)
- to moderate or mitigate: to temper justice with mercy.
- to soften or tone down.
- to bring to a proper, suitable, or desirable state by or as by blending or admixture.
- (10)
- to be or become tempered.
tempering 近义词
calm, moderate
tempering 的近义词 34 个
- abate
- allay
- alleviate
- assuage
- cool
- curb
- dilute
- ease
- lessen
- mitigate
- mollify
- restrain
- soften
- soothe
- tone down
- weaken
- adjust
- admix
- modulate
- pacify
- palliate
- relieve
- revamp
- soft-pedal
- switch
- transmogrify
- chill out
- cool out
- fine tune
- make reasonable
- monkey around with
- take the bite out of
- take the edge off
- take the sting out of
tempering 的反义词 23 个
harden
更多tempering例句
- The money, I soon discovered, was compensation for the founder’s temper — and I put up with those tirades because taking home an extra $30 per week means a lot when you’re living paycheck to paycheck.
- OK, call it what you want, but I had to get control of my temper.
- In the past few days, as regulations change in my corner of the world, tempers are growing shorter, and I find myself and my co-workers to be a sort of lightning rod for customers' frustrations.
- Four of the Capitals' games against the Sabres will come in the season's first 10 days, and players and coaches already have seen tempers get short.
- There, they are vulnerable to disease and predation — not to mention one another’s bad tempers.
- But I question whether we have achieved the proper balance of patriotic expression tempering dissent that Obama championed.
- Even more so than Donilon, however, she has a temper that needs tempering.
- And your current brand of persuasion entails tempering pushiness with aplomb, brute force with benevolence.
- Tempering the turn toward the dark are a bevy of classes on comedy.
- Now for the tempering of the Gudgeons, I leave it to the judgment of the Workman; but a word or two of the polishing of it.
- The ministers of religion possess the secret of tempering the alarms which they have the art to excite.
- The tempering of steel after it has been forged into shape is a specialty, almost a natural gift.
- It is interesting to note that age and misfortune and illness had a tempering influence on Mark Twain's nature.
- Glycerine is a good tempering substance, and to this may be added a small amount of sulphate of potash.