| 释义 |
soft-centred, a.
[f. prec.]
1. Of a person or his attitudes: soft-hearted; of works of literature, art, music, etc.: having a weak, vulnerable, or sentimental core.
1957Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Nov. 674/4 Like his attack on the Monarchy his attachment to Socialism is essentially emotional and soft-centred. 1960Listener 3 Mar. 425/2 The fact that the catalyst is a woman friend..does not make the play any less soft-centred. 1963Times 7 Mar. 15/3 Like all nice Cockney Jewish characters, Harryboy is soft-centred. 1973Art Internat. Mar. 57/1 His resulting paintings..proved to be simply a murky, soft-centered brand of Cubism. 1977Broadcast 10 Oct. 17/2 Michael Arlen..[was] a writer of immense but somewhat soft-centred sophistication.
2. Of a chocolate; having a soft centre.
1970C. Wood ‘Terrible Hard’, says Alice viii. 110 A soft-centred milk chocolate. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Apr. 438/3 Diamond Jim Brady..regularly ate a twelve-course dinner..ending with five pounds of soft-centred chocolates.
Hence soft-ˈcentredness.
1967Guardian 10 Apr. 6/6 The critics..began to note..a soft-centredness about Britain, a complacency, a reluctance to scrap and build. 1981Economist 28 Nov. 47/1 A mixture of Saudi soft-centredness, Arab pettiness and Syrian bloody-mindedness has led the Arabs to miss a rare opportunity. |