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词根:soothe
adj.soothing 抚慰的;使人宽心的
v.soothing 安慰;减轻痛苦(soothe的现在分词)
vi.soothe 起抚慰作用
vt.soothe 安慰;使平静;缓和
Adverb
1. in a soothing manner;
"the mother talked soothingly to her child"
The first known use of soothing was in 1700
sophisticate1 of 2verb
to cause to become sophisticated
sophisticate2 of 2noun
a sophisticated person
sophistnoun
one who argues by the use of sophisms
sophismnoun
a misleading argument that seems reasonable
sop1 of 2noun
chiefly dialect a piece of food dipped or soaked in a liquid (as bread dipped in milk or gravy)
a bribe or gift for soothing or winning approval
sop2 of 2verb
to soak or dip in or as if in liquid
to wet thoroughly
to mop or soak up
sopping up gravy with bread
sootyadjective
of, relating to, or producing soot
sooty fires
soiled with soot
sooty buildings
of the color of soot
sooty birds
sootnoun
a black powder formed when something is burnedespecially: the fine powder consisting chiefly of carbon that colors smoke
sootyadjective
of, relating to, or producing soot
sooty fires
soiled with soot
sooty buildings
of the color of soot
sooty birds
sootyadjective
of, relating to, or producing soot
sooty fires
soiled with soot
sooty buildings
of the color of soot
sooty birds
soothsayernoun
a person who claims to foretell events
soothingadjective
tending to soothe
soothing sounds
1 Nancy's disease has progressed to a kinder stage, where her forgetfulness is soothingly comprehensive.
2 You can’t help but pick up everyday vocabulary and slang while absorbed in budding romances and soothingly slow dinner conversation.
3 Dennerlein wants to blame that plunge on the debt ceiling debacle, but Hatzius notes less soothingly that final sales rose at a sub-tepid 0.5% clip in the first half.
丹纳雷希望将这一现象归罪于悬而不决的债务上限问题,但是哈特久斯注意到今年上半年的总销售额不温不火地上升了0.5%,尽管如此,这一数字也难以让人欣慰。
4 The man came back now and continued tending to me, talking softly and soothingly all the while.
5 There wAS fine furniture, arranged AS soothingly AS the artistic perception of the occupants warranted.
房间里家俱精美,照居住者审美观看来,布置得很是典雅,足以给人安慰了。
6 In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott lauded the three principal actors for incarnating “familiar masculine stereotypes in ways that manage to be moderately fresh as well as soothingly familiar.”
7 "Now don't you worry," she said soothingly.
“现在你就别担心了,”她的语气里充满了抚慰。
8 And as the past two years have reshaped the world, introducing new layers of planning and risk into the simplest social engagements, their soothingly structured advice has never felt more welcome.
9 Our critic called it “a dandy piece of entertainment, soothingly old-fashioned and bracingly up-to-date.”
10 He had terrified me at first, but in time I had seen the way he spoke soothingly to the animals we brought him, stroking their fur until they nuzzled against his palm.
11 "It's gooooood," she whispers soothingly as she takes her first bite.
12 The deep-throated ovation that greeted the end of the performance was rewarded with an encore, the Sarabande from Bach's C-major Cello Suite, whose serenity and grace transported the audience to a soothingly different world.
13 The music cycles soothingly through a few chords as guitars and piano intertwine, a saxophone improvises at the periphery and Jenkins approaches serenity.
14 Yet everything about his manner is so soothingly sweet and self-effacingly normal that if we hadn't met at his home I'd scarcely have believed he was really Brown.
15 Ku said soothingly , " Mr. Mei - t'ing , I won't go. I'll wait for the luggage here with you. "
顾尔谦抚慰地说: “ 梅亭先生, 我决不先走,陪你等行李. ”
16 She compares lifting to cooking, another soothingly repetitive process that many find relaxing because the rhythm – all that chopping and stirring – takes over.
17 “No, no, of course I wouldn’t,” he said soothingly.
18 Sure it speaks soothingly to you, but it speaks to everyone in that same soothing voice, with the same precise words, and we as individuals matter not a wit to the GPS itself.
19 And the land between the geometric fields and canopies of grape vines was given to olive trees — hillsides populated with soothingly straight grids of trees, spindly branches giving way to tufts of pale green.
20 “Don't worry about that,” she said soothingly, and in the second or two during which she drew deeply on her cigarette, Briony flinched as her hopes lifted unreally.