distemper

n. (身心方面的)病, 温热(兽病), 坏脾气 vt. 用胶画颜料画, 使精神紊乱

发音

UK /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/
其它

词形变化

distempers 复数 distempered distemperedst distempereth distempering distempers 三单 distempers distempering 现在分词 distempered 过去式 distempered 过去分词 distemperest distemperedst 过去式 distempereth 三单 distempered 复数

别名

destemper

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.

    可数 不可数 生物 医学 动物学
  2. 2.

    A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.

    古体 可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A glue-based paint.

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  4. 4.

    A painting produced with this kind of paint.

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v.
  1. 1.

    To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

  2. 2.

    To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

  3. 3.

    To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.

    1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37, I have been long accustomed to defend you, To heal and pacify distempered spirits.

  4. 4.

    To intoxicate.

  5. 5.

    To paint using distemper.

  6. 6.

    To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.

    to distemper colors with size

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词源

From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.

来源:wiktionary