sedate
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [s??de?t]
- 美式音標 [s??de?t]
- 國際音標 [si'deit]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- adj.安靜的；鎮(zhèn)靜的
- vt.使安靜；使鎮(zhèn)靜
詞根記憶
- sed(=sid坐下) + ate→坐下來的→鎮(zhèn)靜的
- sed(=sid，坐下) + ate→坐下來的→安靜的
同根派生
- adj性質(zhì)的同根詞
- sedative：使鎮(zhèn)靜的；使安靜的。
- adv性質(zhì)的同根詞
- sedately：安詳?shù)兀绘?zhèn)靜地。
- n性質(zhì)的同根詞
- sedative：[藥]鎮(zhèn)靜劑；能使安靜的東西；止痛藥。
- sedation：鎮(zhèn)靜；鎮(zhèn)靜作用；鎮(zhèn)靜狀態(tài)。
- sedateness：安詳；鎮(zhèn)靜。
英漢例句
- We set off again at a more sedate pace.
我們重新上路了，步調(diào)更加從容。 - She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins.
她帶他們?nèi)グ菰L她那些不茍言笑的表兄表姐們。 - Her London life was sedate, almost mundane.
她在倫敦的生活平淡無奇，幾乎有些枯燥。 - We followed the youngsters at a more sedate pace.
我們跟在年輕人后面，步子稍慢一點。 - I live in a sedate little village in the Midlands.
我住在英格蘭中部一個寧靜的小村莊里。
詞組短語
- sedate detail 端莊
- But Sedate 而且處之泰然
- sedate flighty 穩(wěn)定
- sedate roil 沉著
- conscious sedate 清醒鎮(zhèn)靜
短語
英英字典
- avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed
- to cause a person or animal to be very calm or go to sleep by giving them a drug
- If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull.
- If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way.
- If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep.