歐米惠必应词典

relent

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [rɪˈlent]
  • 美式音标 [rɪˈlɛnt]
  • 国际音标 [ri'lent]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vi. 變溫和，變寬厚；減弱；緩和
  • vt. 使變溫和；減輕
  • v. 再借給（relend的過去分詞）

词根记忆

  • re + lent(柔軟的)→心腸軟了下來→變溫和，變寬厚
  • re + lent(借)→借錢給人緩和他的經濟睏難→緩和

同根派生

     

英汉例句

  • The police will not relent in their fight against crime.
    警方在跟犯罪分子的鬭爭中決不手軟.
  • Your own family might in time relent.
    你自己的家庭縂有一天會變溫和.
  • I confess the inhumanity of this action moved me very much, and made me relent exceedingly.
    我自認這種不人道的擧動使我很痛心, 我非常憐憫她.
  • I confess the inhumanity of this action moved me very much, and made me relent exceedingly.
    我自認這種不人道的擧動使我很痛心, 我非常憐憫她.
  • The police will not relent in their fight against crime.
    警方在跟犯罪分子的鬭爭中決不手軟.

词组短语

    短語

  • relent t 減弱;動憐憫心;變溫和
  • milden relent 變溫和
  • to relent 讓步
  • relent detail 變仁慈
  • be less intrasigent relent 指口頭上不再堅持

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to act in a less severe way towards someone and allow something that you had refused to allow before

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you relent, you allow someone to do something that you had previously refused to allow them to do.