temper
n
1
(a) [C] state of the mind as regards anger or calmness 心情; 心境; 脾氣; 性情
in a bad/good temper, ie angry/amiable 心情壞[好].
(b) [C, U] tendency to become angry easily 脾氣; 容易發怒的性情
learn to control one's temper 學會忍住脾氣
have a (short/quick/nasty) temper 脾氣急[暴/壞]
fly into a temper 發怒 * a fit of temper 發脾氣.
2 [U] degree of hardness and elasticity of a tempered metal (金屬回火後的)硬度和彈性.
3 (idm 習語) in a (bad, foul, rotten, etc) `temper angry 發怒; 發脾氣. keep/lose one's `temper succeed/fail in controlling one's anger 忍住[發]脾氣.
temper v
1 [Tn] bring (metal) to the required degree of hardness and elasticity by heating and then cooling 使(金屬)回火: tempered steel 回火鋼.
2 [Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (with sth) moderate or soften the effects of sth; mitigate sth 調和或減輕某事物的作用; 使某事緩和
temper justice with mercy, ie be merciful when punishing sb justly 法外施恩(懲罰某人時公正而仁慈).
*['temp?]n. (鋼等的)硬度, 脾氣, 心情, 中和劑, 傾向, 回火vt. 使回火, 鍛煉, 調和, 使緩和vi. 回火【化】 調質度; 回火【醫】 回火, 淬硬相關詞組: get into a temper keep one's temper lose one's temper show temper be in a good temper be in a bad temper be of a calm temper be of a quick temper a fit of temper
I'll pay you six thousand ducats for the three thousand ducats that Antonio borrowed.
我將付給你六千塊錢,用來歸還安東尼奧借的那三千塊錢。
He had known that it was not safe to travel alone in the forest near the coast.
也聽說過獨自一人在海邊的森林里走是不安全的。
At the time of his death, one person praised him as follows: Future generations, it may be, will hardly believe that such a person as this walked upon this earth.