Moderate
['mɒd(ə)rət] or ['mɑdərət]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make less fast or intense; 'moderate your speed'.
(verb.) preside over; 'John moderated the discussion'.
(adj.) not extreme; 'a moderate penalty'; 'temperate in his response to criticism' .
(adj.) being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; 'moderate prices'; 'a moderate income'; 'a moderate fine'; 'moderate demands'; 'a moderate estimate'; 'a moderate eater'; 'moderate success'; 'a kitchen of moderate size'; 'the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart' .
(adj.) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; 'moderate in his demands'; 'restrained in his response' .
錄入:诺兰--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
(a.) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
(a.) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
(a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
(a.) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
(a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
(a.) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
(a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
(n.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.
(v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
(v. t.) To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
(v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
(v. i.) To preside as a moderator.
柏格編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Temperate, sparing, frugal, not excessive.[2]. Cheap, unexpensive.[3]. Reasonable, judicious, deliberate, cool, mild, not extreme, not violent.
v. a. Assuage, soothe, allay, mitigate, soften, mollify, appease, temper, attemper, quiet, quell, still, pacify, repress, subdue, abate, reduce, lessen, dull, blunt.
錄入:曼蒂
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Control, soften, allay, regulate, repress, govern, temper
ANT:Disturb, disorganize, excite, misconduct
SYN:Limited, temperate, calm, dispassionate, sober, abstinent, sparing, steady,ordinary
ANT:Extravagant, intemperate, rigorous, excessive, violent, extraordinary
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例句/造句/用法:
- How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, her expressions more moderate! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- This expense, however, it must be acknowledged, is more moderate in Great Britain than in most other countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The only course is to try by all means, direct and indirect, to moderate and vary his occupations. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They said they were elegant and very moderate in price. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In the matter of slavery; all nations had slaves; some treated them very cruelly, some with moderate cruelty. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- On a moderate computation, it was many months, that Sunday, since I had left Joe and Biddy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Such was the home which was to put Mansfield out of her head, and teach her to think of her cousin Edmund with moderated feelings. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- A wheel of great weight was hung upon a shaft which was connected to the piston, and which weight absorbed the force suddenly developed by the explosion, and so moderated the speed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I answered, moderating them again as I had moderated them once already. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He needed to recover the full sense that he was in the right by moderating his words. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She seems to possess the power of moderating or increasing the light at will. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I answered, moderating them again as I had moderated them once already. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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