vt. 1.使软化,弄软。 2.减轻,减弱(抵抗或反对)。 3.使(心)变温和;使柔弱;使不闪闪发光;使柔和;使婉转。 vi. 1.变软;变温和,变柔和;变弱,变柔弱。 2.变静,变安稳,融和。
短语和例子
soften water 使硬水软化成软水。 be softened into tears 感动得流泪。 soften up 〔美俚〕(用恭维话等)软化;【军事】(进攻前用猛烈轰炸、炮击等)削弱(对方的抵抗力);破坏(对方的士气)。 n. -er 使软化[变柔和]的人[物];软化剂,软水剂。 n. -ing 【无线电】真空恶化;漏气。
Humour softened a swindle as moonlight beautified the shapeless streets of the western town . 幽默减轻了欺骗的丑恶,就象月光把西部城镇横七竖八的街道美化了一样。
The best role for government may be to soften the negative side effects rather than to prevent these changes . 政府最好的工作是削弱不良副作用而不是阻止这种变革。
He had employed his influence in softening the consequences of that insurrection to the gentlemen . 他曾运用他的影响,使那些参加起义的绅士所受到的处分,得以减轻。
Before we reached home, catherine's displeasure softened into a perplexed sensation of pity and regret . 我们没到家之前,凯瑟琳的不快已经缓和成为一种怜悯与抱憾交织的感情。
As censure is but awkwardly softened by apology, i shall offer you no apology for this letter . 在这封信里,我不打算对你讲什么客套话,因为客套话很别扭,只能使批评显得很软弱无力。
Steger, seeing there was no chance to soften the judge's mind by any subtlety of argument, returned to cowperwood . 斯蒂格发现已没有机会利用微妙的诡辩来软化推事的主张了,就回到考帕伍德身边去。
The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of reconciliation . 这孩子因母亲久病不愈颇引人怜,已经成为一种重修旧好的阶梯了。
Nothing tender, nothing sympathetic, had ever had a chance to fasten upon it--no windsown blossom, no familiar softening moss . 任何温柔和同情,不论它象随风飘扬的花瓣,还是善于攀附的苔藓,都没有机会附着在这上面。
Hawthorne offers a supernatural phenomenon together with a possible material explanation, and thus frequently softens the blow too much . 霍桑描写了一个超自然现象,又给了一个可能的物质解释,这往往使故事在力量上受到很大的损害。
First i soften you up , and then it ' s showtime 首先我要把你弄瘫,然后再好好玩一玩