| 词汇 | subdue |
| 释义 | subdue verb[ T ] uk /səbˈdʒuː/ us /səbˈduː/ to reduce the force of something, or to prevent something from existing or developing: 压制；制服；控制 The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it.大火烧了8个小时后，消防队才控制住了火势。 He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression.他指责学校试图压制个性的自由表现。 to bring a person or group under control by using force: Police say they have a range of methods available to them to subdue a person during a confrontation. Their aim was to subdue security guards and cut the paintings from their frames. As one rebellion is subdued, the conditions for another are forming elsewhere. Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof frustration guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom preclude preclusion preclusive prejudice prevent scuttle smother suffocate You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making less strong Causing something to end subdue | American Dictionarysubdue verb[ T ] us/səbˈdu/ to reduce the force of (someone or something): She’d be hard to subdue if she got mad. Examples of subduesubdue It is also a multicultural invention that conjures a cultural calendar to subdue the irregularities of nature. The wish to subdue finds no immediate point of attack. They gradually realized that their hostile policy had unwittingly contributed to the strengthening of an enemy they intended to subdue. He wants to be able to say that his hopelessly subdued housewife lacks desires for freedoms that she has reason to value. As will be seen, the seniority of the four brothers had helped a great deal to subdue their potential conflicts. However, their effect is to increase desire rather than subdue it. This must be more than a subdued animal welfarist point of view; it must be incorporated into our daily way of thinking about nonhuman animals. There is clearly a mutual acceptance to subdue anarchical displays in favour of homogeneity. In a rather subdued decade, these books easily pass muster as the most luminous examples of scholarship in agrarian history. As the underbelly of things, materials may lie low but are never entirely subdued. This law does, and so emotions are subdued beneath the quiet, impersonal order that law imposes on the family and individual alike. I wilfully subdued any ideological opposition that might be welling up in my breast or agitating my brain. The audience is respectfully subdued, and the musicians dress in black. This limiting factor simply restricts the composer's imagination, having their creativity subdued by the technology it employs. The granulites form chains of hills and isolated hillocks amidst banded gneisses, which occur in a country of subdued topography. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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