Phlegm
[flem] or [flɛm]
解释:
(noun.) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness.
录入:昆西--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
(a.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
(a.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
(a.) Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
编辑:莉齐
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Mucus, excrementitious humor.[2]. Apathy, insensibility, dulness, indifference, coldness, sluggishness.
格伦录入
解释:
n. one of the four elements of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed: the thick slimy matter secreted in the throat and discharged by coughing: sluggishness: indifference: calmness.—adj. Phlegmagogic (fleg-ma-goj′ik).—ns. Phleg′magogue a medicine expelling phlegm; Phlegmā′sia inflammation esp. Phlegmasia dolens puerperal tumid leg.—adjs. Phlegmat′ic -al abounding in or generating phlegm: cold: sluggish: not easily excited.—adv. Phlegmat′ically.—n. Phleg′mon inflammation in the connective tissue.—adjs. Phleg′monoid; Phlegm′y.
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例句:
- Thanks to the phlegm of my nature, I rarely start. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- His phlegm became him wonderfully. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Some bread, Rose, if you please, requested Martin, with intense gravity, serenity, phlegm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He might be a good manbut this duty had become to him a sort of form: he went through it with the phlegm of custom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- His niece viewed his man?uvres and received his innuendoes with phlegm; apparently she did not above half comprehend to what aim they tended. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- His temperament boasted a certain amount of phlegm, and he preferred an undemonstrative, not ungentle, but serious aspect to any other. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Not yet, returned Moore with phlegm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
编辑:谢恩