橘子朗文词典

sedate

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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

    短語

  • 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

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • 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

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • 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.