Damp
[dæmp]
解释:
(noun.) a slight wetness.
(verb.) restrain or discourage; 'the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere'.
(adj.) slightly wet; 'clothes damp with perspiration'; 'a moist breeze'; 'eyes moist with tears' .
整理:塞丽娜--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
(n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
(n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
(superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
(superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
(n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
(n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
黛朵录入
同义词及近义词：
n. Moisture, vapor, fog, dampness.
a. Moist, humid, dank, wet.
v. a. [1]. Moisten, dampen.[2]. Check, repress, restrain, moderate, allay, abate.[3]. Chill, deaden, depress, deject.
校对:奥斯瓦德
同义词及反义词：
SYN: blunt, dishearten, quench, slack, moderate, humid, wet, moist,discourage, discountenance, repress
ANT:Urge, inflame, incite, fan, excite
卡门录入
解释:
n. vapour mist: moist air: lowness of spirits: (pl.) dangerous vapours in mines &c.—v.t. to wet slightly: to chill: to discourage: to check: to make dull.—adj. moist foggy: sometimes in the form Damp′y.—v.t. and v.i. Damp′en to make or become damp or moist.—n. Damp′er that which checks or moderates: a mechanical appliance for reducing currents musical vibration &c.: (Australia) a kind of unfermented bread.—adj. Damp′ish somewhat damp.—n. Damp′ishness.—adv. Damp′ly.—n. Damp′ness.—Damping off (hort.) the death of plants from excess of moisture.
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例句:
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- There was a golden surface on the brown cliffs but now, and behold they are only damp earth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Damp, but not wet linen, may possibly give colds; but no one catches cold by bathing, and no clothes can be wetter than water itself. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Not her father's desponding attitude had power to damp her now. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- The printing ink is applied with large rollers, and the damped paper having been placed carefully upon the stone, with blankets at the back, it is passed through the press. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- I returned to my home in unusual spirits: they were a little damped, however, by the reflection that I had been doing wrong. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- A damped paper is next laid on, and when subjected to great pressure, an exact copy of the drawing or writing is produced. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- This silence damped me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Her spirits were damped, at any rate, and she found it very difficult to go on talking at all, much more in the wild way that she had done. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- If the damper is kept open, coal is rapidly consumed, and the additional heat passes out through the chimney, and is lost to use. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- When the fire is started, the damper should be opened wide in order to allow the escape of smoke; but after the fire is well started there is less smoke, and the damper may be partly closed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- They were, perhaps, overtaken by the growth of the European forests, as the climate became milder and damper. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The nitrogen in the bottle, not only does not assist the burning of the match, but it acts as a damper to the burning. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- However, Meyler spoiled my preferment with Ebrington by hurting his lordship's vanity and thus damping all his ardour. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The padded end of the damping spring rests against the diaphragm and prevents excessive vibration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- He sent a damping message to a solitary who had invented a new degree in saintliness by chaining himself to a rock in a narrow cave. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Our strongest holds are not proof against a storm of hail, and even a dark cloud damps the very stoutest heart. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- All was silence and darkness: the roaring, rushing crowd all vanished and gone--the damps, as well as the incipient fire, extinct and forgotten. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Even iron could not remain without consuming in the damps of that infernal dungeon. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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