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Temperate Climate Hot Beauty Temper Person's Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词

英语单词 temperate
英美音标 英 ['tempərət] 美 ['tempərət]
中文释义 adj.温和的;适度的;有节制的
英语例句 (1) I love the temperate climate here.
(2) It is rare for so temperate a man to get angry.
(3) And he is steeped through and through with profound yet temperate happiness.
(4) He is a temperate man, and never drinks too much.
(5) Its beauty is more a kind of smiling beauty and the happiness it gives us is mild and temperate.
中文例句 (1) 我喜欢这儿温和的气候。
(2) 象他这样性情温和的人发脾气是很少见的。
(3) 所以完全沉浸于深深的而又适度的幸福之中。
(4) 他是一个有节制的人,从不过量饮酒。
(5) 它的美比较是一种微笑的美,它给予我们的快乐是温和的,有节制的。
vocabulary简明 Temperate means mild, moderate. If you're a temperate person, you are calm, reasonable. If you live in a temperate climate it's warm and sunny, but not too hot.
vocabulary扩展 Like other words that sound similar, temperate has to do with measurement and range. Temperatures measure how hot and cold things are and someone with a temper is hot-headed or intemperate, the opposite of this word. A temperate person's life motto is summed up by Goldilocks: not too hot and not too cold, just right.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](气候)温和的;(地区)温带的 Temperate is used to describe a climate or a place which is never extremely hot or extremely cold.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • The Nile Valley keeps a temperate climate throughout the year.

    尼罗河流域一年四季气候温和。

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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](行为)温和的,心平气和的,平心静气的 If a person's behaviour is temperate, it is calm and reasonable, so that they do not get angry or lose their temper easily.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • His final report to the President was far more temperate and balanced than the earlier memorandum.

    和之前的备忘录相比,他递交给总统的总结报告措辞要更为温和得体。

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