| 单词 | steady |
| 释义 | steady I. 1. a. < holding the box steady on his shoulder with the other hand — Pearl Buck > b. < with hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds — Walt Whitman > : unfaltering, unswerving < gave him a steady look — Margaret Deland > < took steady aim > c. d. < a steady bearing > 2. a. < a steady pace > < a steady breeze > < a steady light > : not changed, replaced, or interrupted : continuous, uninterrupted < from then on it was a steady fight against misfortune — S.H.Adams > < continued to produce a steady output of books — Evelyn G. Cruickshanks > < a steady job > < a steady girl friend > b. < the glass was steady and the weather good with fair visibility — H.A.Chippendale > c. < cattle were steady to off 25 cents per hundredweight — Wall Street Journal > < current quotations show no great improvement but they are steadier — Chem. & Engineering News > 3. a. < steady nerves > < a steady temper > : disciplined, resolute < the steady valor of the warriors whom he had trained — T.B.Macaulay > b. (1) < a conservative and steady people, are little attracted by tricky trends — Exhibition of Swiss Bks. > (2) < there must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles — Aldous Huxley > < a good steady ballplayer > < a steady horse > (3) < a hound steady on the scent > c. < promised to marry another man, a good steady farmer — Vance Randolph > < grown to be fine women, and good steady mothers to their children — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > Synonyms: < the light, small, but steady and persistent as before — Thomas Hardy > < he first imagined, and then demonstrated, that the geologic agencies are not explosive and cataclysmal, but steady and patient — C.W.Eliot > and in relation to persons it may imply a balanced resolution and dependability, a strength of character under stress < intoxicated as he was, he knew enough to charge the steward — a steady seaman be it remembered — with the present safety of the ship — Herman Melville > < statesmen, instead of being as they should be, at once mild and steady, are at once ferocious and inconsistent — T.B.Macaulay > even may indicate a level, plain quality without rough variation or elevation < had been moving along in an even path … there was no apparent slope downward, and distinctly none upward — Theodore Dreiser > when used of people it suggests a natural level calmness without the resolution implied by steady < support with an even temper, and without any violent transports of mind, a sudden gust of prosperity — Henry Fielding > constant implies a sameness, fixity, consistency, persistence, or regularity more or less measurable and lasting < while there have been several clear and distinct changes in the pattern, the essence of the university tradition has through all these years remained constant — J.B.Conant > In reference to persons, it may suggest either loyalty or unchanging fixity < a loyal husband (constant if not faithful) — Agnes Repplier > < could never think of him as having been a young man … he always thought of him as an unchanging, a measured, deliberate, constant quantity, like a Greek letter in a mathematical formula — J.P.Marquand > uniform, less applicable to persons than the preceding words, stresses to a greater degree sameness and lack of variety in salient characteristics as indicated or implied < the various tackle blocks and planks of the wooden ships were cut to uniform measure: building became the assemblage of accurately measured elements — Lewis Mumford > < the purpose of this is to afford a requirement of a reasonably uniform character for all states cooperating with the federal government — F.D.Roosevelt > equable stresses lack of extremes and sudden marked changes < a more equable winter climate in France — Osbert Sitwell > < in low equable tones, curiously in contrast to the strident babble with which natives are accustomed to make day hideous — Rudyard Kipling > and applied to persons and their temperaments it may imply an unruffled complacence < bridge, whist, baccarat, poker, roulette and Monte Carlo — at all these she won and lost, with the same equable sangfroid — Rose Macaulay > II. transitive verb 1. < she swayed slightly and put a hand out to steady herself — Nigel Balchin > 2. a. < drew a deep breath and steadied himself with an effort of will — Aldous Huxley > b. < as he had no business or profession to steady him, he traveled rapidly down the primrose path — G.C.Sellery > c. < was steadied in his determination for a career by his desire to win … approbation and love — Lawrason Brown > 3. a. b. < steady the horse > intransitive verb 1. < led a wild life but steadied down after his marriage > 2. < the statue tottered but then steadied on its base > < they swept round in a long gentle turn and steadied on the course — Nevil Shute > 3. < another dark spot appeared to be brightening as farm prices steadied — Dun's Review > Synonyms: see stabilize III. 1. < the rain was coming down steady — Richard Bissell > < these poets have seen the city steady and seen it whole — Thomas Lask > 2. 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