| 词汇 | tepid |
| 释义 | tepid adjective uk /ˈtep.ɪd/ us /ˈtep.ɪd/ tepidadjective (NOT WARM)(of liquid) not very warm（液体）温热的，微热的 Warm balmily balmy chill lukewarm rewarm snug snugly take the chill off somethingidiom thaw thaw out toast toasty uncooled warm warm (someone/something) up warmly warmth tepidadjective (NOT ENTHUSIASTIC)A tepid reaction is not enthusiastic: （反应）不热情的，不热烈的 I got a tepid response to my suggestion.我的建议得到的反应很平淡。 Lacking interest and enthusiasm apathetic apathy aridity blah blankly half-hearted half-heartedly hell incurious nonchalance nonchalant nonchalantly nonconcern passionless unimpressed unmotivated unromantically unserious unseriousness your heart isn't in itidiom tepid | American Dictionarytepid adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈtep·ɪd/ (of liquid) not very warm, or (of feelings or actions) not very strong: There is only tepid support in Congress for the proposal. tepid | Business Englishtepid adjective uk /ˈtepɪd/us not very good or strong: The market's tepid finish was partly due to fourth-quarter earnings falling short of Wall Street's expectations. They are struggling to boost profits amid tepid sales. His solo work has been met with a tepid response. Examples of tepidtepid I doubt many parents would find satisfaction in such tepid rationalizations. The staff's own reaction to huitlacoche itself was, at best, tepid. Temperature is also susceptible to plain language description: hot, warm, tepid, cool, freezing can each be understood as grades. All statements of the kind were not as tepid. Presented as a powder, it is readily constituted into solution in tepid water. Our rights of self-defense are not that tepid. The majority of the survey provided a far more tepid assessment of encouraging democracy abroad, even for religious minorities. If his heart is tepid, it is as if he is conceived in the feminine side, which is weaker and defective. Lexical development within the subset of temperature terms may therefore involve the ability to differentiate between items such as scalding, hot, lukewarm, warm, tepid, cold, and freezing. Doctors warn patients that if a large amount is taken with tepid water, it may cause vomiting, which, however, has the advantage of expelling leeches in the throat. Worms were first washed in tepid physiological saline, and then fixed in a hot mixture of 40% formaldehyde (10 parts), acetic acid (1 part) and water (89 parts). Carried to its logical extremes, this view of literature leads its adherents to reject much of our great literature and to embrace trite and tepid works of no enduring value. They are tepid little debates on some little trivial proposals for some superficial reform in the present order of society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that we must allow some freedom in this respect, otherwise it would become a tepid programme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am afraid that local authorities have a very tepid and lukewarm view of plan- ning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of tepid 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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