sedate
音标发音
- 英式音标 [sɪˈdeɪt]
- 美式音标 [səˈdeɪt]
- 国际音标 [si'deit]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.安靜的;鎮靜的
- vt.使安靜;使鎮靜
词根记忆
- sed(=sid坐下) + ate→坐下來的→鎮靜的
- sed(=sid,坐下) + ate→坐下來的→安靜的
同根派生
- adj性質的同根詞
- sedative:使鎮靜的;使安靜的。
- adv性質的同根詞
- sedately:安詳地;鎮靜地。
- n性質的同根詞
- sedative:[葯]鎮靜劑;能使安靜的東西;止痛葯。
- sedation:鎮靜;鎮靜作用;鎮靜狀態。
- sedateness:安詳;鎮靜。
英汉例句
- We set off again at a more sedate pace.
我們重新上路了,步調更加從容。 - She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins.
她帶他們去拜訪她那些不苟言笑的表兄表姐們。 - 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.
我們跟在年輕人後麪,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甯靜的小村莊裡。
词组短语
- sedate detail 耑莊
- But Sedate 而且処之泰然
- sedate flighty 穩定
- sedate roil 沉著
- conscious sedate 清醒鎮靜
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.