temper
n
1
(a) [C] state of the mind as regards anger or calmness 心情; 心境; 脾气; 性情
in a bad/good temper, ie angry/amiable 心情坏[好].
(b) [C, U] tendency to become angry easily 脾气; 容易发怒的性情
learn to control one's temper 学会忍住脾气
have a (short/quick/nasty) temper 脾气急[暴/坏]
fly into a temper 发怒 * a fit of temper 发脾气.
2 [U] degree of hardness and elasticity of a tempered metal (金属回火後的)硬度和弹性.
3 (idm 习语) in a (bad, foul, rotten, etc) `temper angry 发怒; 发脾气. keep/lose one's `temper succeed/fail in controlling one's anger 忍住[发]脾气.
temper v
1 [Tn] bring (metal) to the required degree of hardness and elasticity by heating and then cooling 使(金属)回火: tempered steel 回火钢.
2 [Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (with sth) moderate or soften the effects of sth; mitigate sth 调和或减轻某事物的作用; 使某事缓和
temper justice with mercy, ie be merciful when punishing sb justly 法外施恩(惩罚某人时公正而仁慈).
*['tempә]n. (钢等的)硬度, 脾气, 心情, 中和剂, 倾向, 回火vt. 使回火, 锻炼, 调和, 使缓和vi. 回火【化】 调质度; 回火【医】 回火, 淬硬相关词组: 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.
我将付给你六千块钱,用来归还安东尼奥借的那三千块钱。
He had known that it was not safe to travel alone in the forest near the coast.
也听说过独自一人在海边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.