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Collected Cool Works Describe People Letters 英 Kə'Lektɪd] 美

英语单词 collected
英美音标 英 [kə'lektɪd] 美 [kə'lektɪd]
中文释义 adj.收集成的;镇定的
动词collect的过去式和过去分词.
英语例句 (1) With Nokia Device Status, you can save all the collected information to a file, and you can send the file to customer care services for closer inspection and analysis.
(2) If he were insane, he was a very cool and collected insanity.
中文例句 (1) 借由诺基亚装置状态,你能将所有收集到的数据保存到一个文件,并且将文件发送至客户服务部进行进一步的检测分析。
(2) 如果他发了疯,他也是个非常冷静和镇定的疯子。
vocabulary简明 Use the adjective collected to describe a person who stays cool and calm, even under pressure.
vocabulary扩展 There are certain people who always seem completely self-possessed and unflappable no matter what is going on around them. You can describe these people as collected. If a kid throws up on the school bus and the driver is unruffled, he is collected. A confident, poised trapeze artist is also collected. If you're upset, you might say, "I need to collect myself," and once you have calmed yourself, you are collected.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ 形容词](作品、信件)收成全集的 An author's collected works or letters are all their works or letters published in one book or in a set of books.
  [ADJ n]
  • ...the collected works of Rudyard Kipling...

    拉迪亚德·吉卜林作品全集

  • His collected poems have just been published.

    他的诗歌集刚刚出版。

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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](尤指在困难或危急情境中)镇定的,泰然自若的 If you say that someone is collected, you mean that they are very calm and self-controlled, especially when they are in a difficult or serious situation.
  [usu v-link ADJ]
  • Police say she was cool and collected during her interrogation.

    警方说她在审问过程中表现得冷静自若。

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