tempering

常見例句

But tempering alone is usually not enough.
但是單純的退火是不夠的。
The judge has admitted that he was “overhasty” in tempering his criticisms.
法官承認他當時在緩和他的意見時有些過于草率。
Tempering this bleak message, official statistics published this week showed that the economy was still growing respectably in the final three months of 2007.
（彷佛是）緩和這個殘酷的消息，本周官方發(fā)布的統(tǒng)計數(shù)字表明2007年最后三個月的經(jīng)濟仍然有可觀的增長。

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