Tenderness
['tendənəs] or ['tɛndɚnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
塞西莉亚校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
哈里森校對
同義詞及近義詞:
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.
校對:玛拉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Delicacy, softness, kindness, sensibility, pity, benevolence, humanity,clemency, benefit
編輯:塞格雷
例句/造句/用法:
- It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- We redoubled our tenderness and earnest attentions. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In all the grandeur of these forests there is repose; in all their freshness there is tenderness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Admirable tenderness! 威爾基·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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I could not but perceive that Perdita loved Raymond; methought also that he regarded the fair daughter of Verney with admiration and tenderness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But in all the intimate relations of life his essential tenderness was manifest. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Perdita looked at him like one amazed; her expressive countenance shone for a moment with tenderness; to see him only was happiness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- I have still some tenderness left for you. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- There is that in woman's tenderness which induces her to believe too easily. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
手打:特伦斯