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

• In the United States and the rest of the Western world, enthusiasm for robots is tempered by skepticism.
  在美国和西方世界其它国家，对机器人的狂热被怀疑论冲淡了。
• Using roller quenched and tempered plate greatly reduces the metallurgical inconsistencies often experienced in thicker cast sections.
  轧制调质钢板的使用大大降低了较厚铸件常有的冶炼不一致性。
• How the Steel was Tempered?
  钢铁是怎样炼成的？
• He still held the same opinions. Only, they had been tempered.
  他还和从前一样，除了那种愤激心情，他对事物还抱着原来的见解，不过变得温和一些了。
• 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。
• Experience has tempered my activism with pragmatism.
  经验使实用主义缓和了我的激进主义。
• She tempered her demands and he was able to accept most of them.
  她放宽了要求，因而他也就能大都接受了。
• This experience has tempered their idealism.
  这次经历锻炼了他们的理想主义。
• The war tempered him.
  这场战争考验了他。
• It is also tempered by organizational standards, infrastructure, and external regulations.
  它还受到组织标准、基础架构，和外部规则的调节。