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temper

英 [ˈtempə(r)]

美 [ˈtempər]

n.  脾气; 易怒的性情; 怒气; 火气; 阵怒; 心情; 情绪; 心境
v.  使缓和; 使温和; 使(金属)回火

过去分词:tempered 复数:tempers 过去式:tempered 现在分词:tempering 第三人称单数:tempers 

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Collins.2 / BNC.4768 / COCA.6436

习惯用语

    n.

      lose/keep your temper (with sb)
    • 发脾气;忍住怒火
      to fail/manage to control your anger
    • She lost her temper with a customer and shouted at him.
      她对一位顾客发了脾气,冲着人家大喊大叫。
    • I struggle to keep my temper with the kids when they misbehave.
      孩子们淘气时,我强捺住性子不发脾气。
    • to have a quick temper
    • 性子急;容易发脾气
      to become angry easily

    牛津词典

      noun

      • 脾气;易怒的性情
        if sb has a temper , they become angry very easily
        1. a violent/short/quick, etc. temper
          烈性子、急性子、火性子等
        2. He must learn to control his temper .
          他得学会捺住性子。
        3. She broke the plates in a fit of temper .
          她一气之下把盘子摔碎了。
        4. After an hour of waiting, tempers began to fray (= people began to get angry) .
          等了一个小时后,大伙儿开始冒火了。
      • 怒气;火气;阵怒
        a short period of feeling very angry
        1. to fly into a temper
          勃然大怒
        2. She says awful things when she's in a temper .
          她一发脾气说话就难听。
      • 心情;情绪;心境
        the way that you are feeling at a particular time
        1. Come back when you're in a better temper.
          心情好些时再回来。
        2. to be in a bad, foul, etc. temper
          心情不好、很坏等
      • 有…脾气的;心情…的
        having a particular type of temper
        1. good-/bad-tempered
          脾气好 / 坏
        2. a sweet-tempered child
          性情温和的小孩

      verb

      • 使缓和;使温和
        to make sth less severe by adding sth that has the opposite effect
        1. Justice must be tempered with mercy.
          法外尚需施恩。
      • 使(金属)回火
        to make metal as hard as it needs to be by heating and then cooling it

        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

        noun

        verb

        • restrain
            Synonym:chastenmoderate
          1. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
            1. she tempered her criticism
            Synonym:seasonmollify
          2. adjust the pitch (of pianos)
            1. harden by reheating and cooling in oil
              1. temper steel
              Synonym:harden
            2. bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
              1. temper glass
              Synonym:annealnormalize

            双语例句

            • His hot temper was making it increasingly difficult for others to work with him.
              他的火暴脾气使得别人越来越难以和他合作。
            • He was known as Mad Shelley partly because of his eccentricity and partly because of his violent temper
              大家都叫他“疯子谢利”,部分因为他的古怪,部分因为他火爆的脾气。
            • 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。
            • 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。
            • She then stormed out in a temper telling him to 'stick his job'.
              她接着怒气冲冲地走了出去,告诉他“去他妈的工作”。
            • He curbed his temper
              他稳住了情绪。
            • He had to learn to temper his enthusiasm.
              他得学着给自己的热情降温。
            • The only flaw in his character seems to be a short temper.
              他性格中的唯一缺点好像就是脾气急。
            • I have a very short fuse and a violent temper.
              我容易发怒,脾气暴躁。
            • Once he lost his temper and quarreled with us.
              有一次他发火了,和我们吵了一架。