Tenderness
['tendənəs] or ['tɛndɚnɪs]
解释:
(noun.) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling.
(noun.) warm compassionate feelings.
(noun.) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); 'the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness'; 'after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on'.
塞西莉亚校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
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同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Softness, delicacy, want of firmness.[2]. Weakness, want of strength, feebleness.[3]. Effeminacy, womanly quality.[4]. Soreness, sensitiveness.[5]. Compassion, kindness, sympathy, affection, pity, love, gentleness, benevolence, leniency, clemency, sensibility, mildness, benignity, humanity, loving-kindness.[6]. Pathos.[7]. Caution, carefulness.
校对:玛拉
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Delicacy, softness, kindness, sensibility, pity, benevolence, humanity,clemency, benefit
编辑:塞格雷
例句:
- It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- We redoubled our tenderness and earnest attentions. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- In all the grandeur of these forests there is repose; in all their freshness there is tenderness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Admirable tenderness! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference to Mrs. Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I could not but perceive that Perdita loved Raymond; methought also that he regarded the fair daughter of Verney with admiration and tenderness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- A wonderful tenderness burned in him, at the sight of her quivering, so sensitive fingers: and at the same time he was full of rage and callousness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- But in all the intimate relations of life his essential tenderness was manifest. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Perdita looked at him like one amazed; her expressive countenance shone for a moment with tenderness; to see him only was happiness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I have still some tenderness left for you. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- There is that in woman's tenderness which induces her to believe too easily. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
手打:特伦斯