tempered

英 [ˈtempəd]

美 [ˈtempərd]

v.  使缓和; 使温和; 使(金属)回火
temper的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：tempered　过去式：tempered　

BNC.22674 / COCA.28294

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 坏脾气;暴脾气
  If you refer to someone'stemperor say that they have atemper, you mean that they become angry very easily.
  1. He had a temper and could be nasty...
     他脾气不大好，有时凶得很。
  2. His short temper had become notorious...
     他的臭脾气是出了名的。
  3. I hope he can control his temper.
     我希望他能克制住自己的脾气。
• N-VAR 情绪;心情
  Yourtemperis the way you are feeling at a particular time. If you areina goodtemper, you feel cheerful. If you areina badtemper, you feel angry and impatient.
  1. I was in a bad temper last night...
     昨晚我心情不好。
  2. He was in a very good temper...
     他当时心情非常好。
  3. In a fit of bad temper, Dougie threw the deep fat fryer overboard.
     一气之下，道吉把那个又深又大的油炸锅扔了。
• VERB 使缓和;使温和
  Totempersomething means to make it less extreme.
  1. For others, especially the young and foolish, the state will temper justice with mercy...
     对待其他人时，尤其是年轻人和愚蠢的人，国家会刚柔并济。
  2. He had to learn to temper his enthusiasm.
     他得学着给自己的热情降温。
• PHRASE 发脾气/开始发火
  If someone isin a temperor getsinto a temper, the way that they are behaving shows that they are feeling angry and impatient.
  1. She was still in a temper when Colin arrived...
     科林到的时候，她气还没有消。
  2. When I try to explain how I feel he just flies into a temper.
     我刚要解释我心里是怎么想的，他就勃然大怒。
• PHRASE 发脾气;大发雷霆
  If youloseyourtemper, you become so angry that you shout at someone or show in some other way that you are no longer in control of yourself.
  1. I've never seen him get cross or lose his temper...
     我从未见过他生气或者发火。
  2. I lost my temper and banged my book down on the desk.
     我大发雷霆，把书砰地往课桌上一摔。

英英释义

adj

• adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
  1. criticism tempered with kindly sympathy
• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
  1. a sword of tempered steel
  2. tempered glass
  Synonym:treatedhardenedtoughened

双语例句

• Experience has tempered my activism with pragmatism.
  经验使实用主义缓和了我的激进主义。
• Hungry they become bad tempered.
  它们肚子饿了脾气就不好了。
• The war tempered him.
  这场战争考验了他。
• He has tempered the strong drink with water.
  他已经用水将烈酒冲淡。
• They tempered their demands with delay and we were able to accept most of them.
  他们把要求拖后了，这样大部分我们就能接受了。
• Other short term policy measures in Britain and New York tempered heavy selling.
  英国和纽约采取的短期政策措施降低了市场抛售浪潮。
• Pure gold is tempered in a blazing fire.
  烈火炼真金。
• If her manner was still harsh, recklessness had tempered it.
  她的态度，如果仍然未改尖酸刻薄，那么轻率则使其不那么厉害了。
• After having been tempered, the steel becomes stronger because its grains get finer.
  经过回火之后，钢的强度增大，因为其晶粒变细了。
• The long struggle with the disease tempered his remarkable will and confidence.
  与疾病的长期斗争磨练了他超人的意志和信心。