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词汇 tempering
释义 tempering
present participle oftemper
temper
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈtem.pər/ us /ˈtem.pɚ/

temperverb[T] (REDUCE)


formal
to make something less strong, extreme, etc.: 使缓和;使变温和;使变淡
My enthusiasm for the venture was tempered by my knowledge of the hard work that would be involved.当我了解到完成这个风险项目所要做的工作时,我的热情多少消退了一些。
I learned to temper my criticism.我学会了批评别人时语气要缓和些。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making less strong
abate
abatement
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
be fading away/fastidiom
downtoner
dull
ease
emasculation
enervate
enervating
hedge
melt
relieve
tone something down
totter
tottering
turn to jellyidiom
undimmed

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Becoming and making smaller or less

temperverb[T] (METAL/GLASS)


to heat and then cool a metal in order to make it hard: 使(金属)回火;锻造
tempered steel回火钢
to change the physical nature of a substance, using heat or a chemical process:
Toughened or tempered glass used in car windscreens is usually made by cooling molten glass very rapidly to make it much harder.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hard and firm
(as) stiff/straight as a ramrodidiom
adamantine
cast iron
congealed
crisply
dilatancy
dilatant
erect
firm
firmness
fossilized
ossified
petrified
ramrod
rigid
rigidity
solidly
temper
unjointed
unyielding

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Cookery terms
Physical & chemical processes

temperverb[T] (FOOD)


food & drink specialized
to heat spices, usually in hot oil, in order to release their flavour:
She tempered the spices in a separate pan and added them to the dhal at the end.
food & drink specialized
to heat and then cool chocolate in order to give it a smooth texture and shiny appearance:
When chocolate is tempered, it is subject to temperatures and techniques that alter its chemistry.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing food using heat
air fryer
bain-marie
baking
baking parchment
barbecue
blanch
cooking
deep fat fryer
deep-fried
deep-fry
done
overdone
pan-fry
parboil
poach
poaching
undercook
underdone
warm (someone/something) up
wood-fired

Examples of tempering


tempering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


But still, the subjects of the law found ways of resisting and tempering their sentences, as the other essays show.
There are, however, technical difficulties with using simulated tempering schemes, particularly with regard to setting up the modified densities and their pseudopriors.
The simulated tempering sampler always started in the hottest distribution (n l 1).
In the simulated tempering sampler, has a discrete distribution where the number of the distances between classes (values of is) have to be defined empirically.
It was assumed that higher-quality pastes would tend to have smaller and less tempering and show better control of firing.
The use of the simulated tempering sampler is not new in genetics.
Simplification of that process will allow widespread use of methods using simulated tempering schemes in practice.
For many women, breast cancer has been present for some years, potentially tempering their anxiety.
The problem of tempering keyboard and fretted instruments has occupied the attention of musicians and theorists for hundreds of years.
The need for acoustic modulation and, in some spaces, isolation is possibly the strongest constraint tempering the drive towards internal openness and f lexibility.
He clearly decided that though he could not deny their admission, he also could not rely on tempering instructions to the jury alone.
The difficulties that adolescents experience in tempering reward seeking with cognition illustrate the possibility that reward systems are not yet subject to the full regulatory influence of prefrontal cortical systems.
Such disjunctures can only be discovered, however, by extended ethnographic and\\or historical research that explores the role of local knowledge and knowledge of the local in tempering master plans.
Heath (1997) used the simulated tempering sampler to improve mixing in the analysis of haploid radiation hybrid mapping data.
The term "tempering the wind to the shorn lamb" has also been used in this connection.
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