temper
英 [ˈtempə(r)]
美 [ˈtempər]
n. 脾气; 易怒的性情; 怒气; 火气; 阵怒; 心情; 情绪; 心境
v. 使缓和; 使温和; 使(金属)回火
过去分词:tempered 复数:tempers 过去式:tempered 现在分词:tempering 第三人称单数:tempers
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习惯用语
n.
- lose/keep your temper (with sb)
- 发脾气;忍住怒火
to fail/manage to control your anger - She lost her temper with a customer and shouted at him.
她对一位顾客发了脾气,冲着人家大喊大叫。 - I struggle to keep my temper with the kids when they misbehave.
孩子们淘气时,我强捺住性子不发脾气。 to have a quick temper - 性子急;容易发脾气
to become angry easily
牛津词典
noun
- 脾气;易怒的性情
if sb has a temper , they become angry very easily- a violent/short/quick, etc. temper
烈性子、急性子、火性子等 - He must learn to control his temper .
他得学会捺住性子。 - She broke the plates in a fit of temper .
她一气之下把盘子摔碎了。 - After an hour of waiting, tempers began to fray (= people began to get angry) .
等了一个小时后,大伙儿开始冒火了。
- a violent/short/quick, etc. temper
- 怒气;火气;阵怒
a short period of feeling very angry- to fly into a temper
勃然大怒 - She says awful things when she's in a temper .
她一发脾气说话就难听。
- to fly into a temper
- 心情;情绪;心境
the way that you are feeling at a particular time- Come back when you're in a better temper.
心情好些时再回来。 - to be in a bad, foul, etc. temper
心情不好、很坏等
- Come back when you're in a better temper.
- 有…脾气的;心情…的
having a particular type of temper- good-/bad-tempered
脾气好 / 坏 - a sweet-tempered child
性情温和的小孩
- good-/bad-tempered
verb
- 使缓和;使温和
to make sth less severe by adding sth that has the opposite effect- Justice must be tempered with mercy.
法外尚需施恩。
- Justice must be tempered with mercy.
- 使(金属)回火
to make metal as hard as it needs to be by heating and then cooling it
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.- He had a temper and could be nasty...
他脾气不大好,有时凶得很。 - His short temper had become notorious...
他的臭脾气是出了名的。 - I hope he can control his temper.
我希望他能克制住自己的脾气。
- He had a temper and could be nasty...
- 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.- I was in a bad temper last night...
昨晚我心情不好。 - He was in a very good temper...
他当时心情非常好。 - 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。
- I was in a bad temper last night...
- VERB 使缓和;使温和
Totempersomething means to make it less extreme.- 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。 - He had to learn to temper his enthusiasm.
他得学着给自己的热情降温。
- For others, especially the young and foolish, the state will temper justice with mercy...
- 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.- She was still in a temper when Colin arrived...
科林到的时候,她气还没有消。 - 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。
- She was still in a temper when Colin arrived...
- 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.- I've never seen him get cross or lose his temper...
我从未见过他生气或者发火。 - 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。
- I've never seen him get cross or lose his temper...
英英释义
noun
- a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- his temper was well known to all his employees
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object
- a sudden outburst of anger
- his temper sparked like damp firewood
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
- he was in a bad humor
verb
- restrain
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- she tempered her criticism
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- temper steel
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- temper glass
双语例句
- 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。 - He has a volatile temper.
他脾气反复无常。 - I was in a bad temper last night
昨晚我心情不好。 - Once he lost his temper and quarreled with us.
有一次他发火了,和我们吵了一架。 - He's inherited his father's explosive temper.
他遗传了其父暴躁的脾气。 - He had to learn to temper his enthusiasm.
他得学着给自己的热情降温。 - I hope he can control his temper.
我希望他能克制住自己的脾气。 - 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。 - 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。 - I found in him a congenial temper.
他是一个和我意气相投的人。