| 释义 |
sweetened, ppl. a.|ˈswiːt(ə)nd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Made sweet, in any sense: see prec. and sweet a.
1567Drant Horace, Ep. Arte Poet. B j, Plautus rymes and tothesume sweetned vayne. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. ii. 475 Where Philomela and such sweetned throates, Are for the mastry tuning various notes. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin i. 174 The Sweetned Prelate rises from the Table. a1708Beveridge Thes. Theol. (1711) III. 250 If he casts darts infected with pleasure, faith shews they are sweetened poisons. 1797Mrs. Berkeley in G. M. Berkeley's Poems Pref. p. cccx, Sweetened sand, called sugar. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 39 Bromoform is conveniently administered suspended in sweetened water. 1924Industr. & Engin. Chem. Nov. 1113 The reactions involved..have furnished explanations of the various complications which appear in sweetening, including..the sourness developed in rerunning a sweetened oil. |