| 单词 | moderate |
| 释义 | mod·er·ate I. 1. a. < a moderate drinker > < a moderate eater > < a person of moderate habits > b. < though very much in favor of the measure, he expressed himself in moderate language > < his demands were very moderate > 2. a. (1) < a family of moderate income > < a room of moderate size > < a moderate crop > (2) < a book of moderate length > < a moderate distance > b. < cheesecakes very moderate indeed — H.E.Bates > < wrote moderate poetry to the end of his life — Carl Van Doren > 3. < a moderate winter > < a moderate wind > < a moderate climate > 4. < has no interest in leading a party that goes off to extremes, that the party direction must be moderate and yet progressive and dynamic — New York Times > < all left-wing and some moderate and right-wing groups had boycotted the election — Collier's Year Book > 5. a. < made a moderate change in the bill which failed to satisfy its critics > < his new wealth had only a moderate effect on his way of life > b. < a few days of moderate illness accompanied by chilly sensations and loss of appetite — Morris Fishbein > < of the 18 cases in which whooping cough developed … 13.3 percent were very mild, 4.8 percent were mild and 3.7 percent were moderate — Journal American Medical Association > 6. < how to be well dressed at a moderate cost — Current Biography > < a moderate price for a new house > 7. of a color II. transitive verb 1. a. < considerations of logic and analogy and history and tradition which moderate and temper the promptings of policy and justice — B.N.Cardozo > < moderated the harshness of their initial demands > < a quick and efficient job of snow removal moderated the effect of the storm > b. < moderated his voice as they approached the sickroom > < moderate your voice if you expect to be listened to > 2. archaic 3. < moderated the debate with perfect fairness > < moderated a small local variety show — Gladwin Hill > 4. intransitive verb 1. < became famous when he moderated on a weekly panel show > 2. archaic 3. < the wind has moderated > < loitering a little because the night had moderated — Kay Boyle > Synonyms: < moderating his big voice to the dimensions of the room — Clifton Daniel > < if the new poets can bring themselves to moderate their attitude of somewhat sensitive resentment towards those who call their art in question — J.L.Lowes > qualify may indicate addition of restriction or precise definition to make a comment less sweeping, inclusive, or open to objection; it may be a close synonym for moderate < the neat craftsman has means of qualifying or abating his own perilous air of arrant omniscience — C.E.Montague > < but this simple and bare outline of the procedure must be supplemented and qualified — Samuel Alexander > < qualified his reports in the Boston News-Letter according to the demands of the royal governor — F.L.Mott > temper may suggest an alleviating or mitigating of the severe or a modifying to accommodate to a situation < always a cool breeze tempered the sunshine — A.B.Osborne > < close to being a major work in war fiction, and only my caution tempers my admiration — M.D.Geismar > < the catalogue of one Virginia seminary was promising to temper the severities of arithmetic to the delicacy of the female mind — American Guide Series: Virginia > attemper is a close but now rarely used synonym for temper in the sense of lessening < the shadow … attempered the cheery western sunshine — Nathaniel Hawthorne > III. 1. < the middle-of-the-road moderates in the world … who wanted both stability and liberalism — W.G.Carleton > < always a moderate, he deprecated extremists of both sections — H.K.Beale > 2. often capitalized < second term as the candidate of the Moderates — Review of Reviews > |
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