Mellow
['meləʊ] or ['mɛlo]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make or grow (more) mellow; 'These apples need to mellow a bit more'; 'The sun mellowed the fruit'.
(verb.) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; 'With age, he mellowed'.
(verb.) soften, make mellow; 'Age and experience mellowed him over the years'.
(adj.) having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; 'mellow wisdom'; 'the peace of mellow age' .
(adj.) having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; 'mellow wisdom'; 'the peace of mellow age' .
(adj.) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; 'a mellow port'; 'mellowed fruit' .
卡拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
(superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.
(superl.) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
(superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
(superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
(v. t.) To make mellow.
(v. i.) To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.
艾伦錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Ripe, mature.[2]. Soft, mellifluous, smooth, silver-toned, sweetly flowing.[3]. Perfected, well prepared.[4]. Drunk, tipsy, fuddled, disguised, half seas over.
v. a. [1]. Ripen, mature.[2]. Perfect, bring to perfection.
休伯特校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Ripe, rich, full-flavored, jovial, mature, soft
ANT:Unripe, harsh, sour, acid, acrid, crabbed, sober, dry
錄入:沃尔特
解釋/意思:
adj. soft and ripe: well matured: soft to the touch palate ear &c.: genial: half-tipsy.—v.t. to soften by ripeness or age: to mature.—v.i. to become soft: to be matured.—adv. Mell′owly.—n. Mell′owness softness: maturity.—adj. Mell′owy soft: friable.
赛勒斯錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Plaster of Paris was found to be the most suitable material for this purpose, and the light produced was soft, mellow, slightly rose-coloured, and quite agreeable to the eye. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If it is not so, he asked, with a peculiar, mellow change in his voice, how is it, then? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Responding to its force, thousands of little incandescent threads leap into radiant brightness and shed their mellow and genial light in our offices, our stores, hotels, and homes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- As the glare of day mellowed into twilight, we looked down upon a picture which is celebrated all over the world. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Now it is ripe, sun-mellowed, perfect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You are mellowing--losing body and colour already. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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