mellow
a. 成熟的, 醇的, 熟练的
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The property of being mellow; mellowness.
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A comfortable or relaxed mood.
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Also main mellow: a close friend or lover.
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1.
To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
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To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
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To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
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To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
美国 比喻 非正式 及物The fervour of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.
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To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
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To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
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Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
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To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
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To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
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To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
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To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
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Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
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比喻a mellow apple
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2.
Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
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Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
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Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
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Fruitful and warm.
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Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
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Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
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Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, calm, relaxed.
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Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
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Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
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Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
俚语 非裔美国英语
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词源
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English melowe, melwe (“ripe, mellow; juicy; sweet”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, possibly: * from an attributive use of melow, melowe, melewe, mele (“meal from ground grain or legumes; flour; kernel of barley or lentils”) [and other forms], from Old English melo, melu (“meal (edible part of a grain or pulse); flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“ground corn; meal; flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush; to grind”); or * a variant of Middle English merow, merowe, meruw (“soft, tender; of a person: frail; of love: unstable, variable”) [and other forms], from Old English meru, mearu (“soft, tender; delicate, frail; callow”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *marwaz (“soft, mellow; brittle, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer(w)- (“to rub; to pack”). The noun and verb are both derived from the adjective. The etymology of noun sense 3 (“close friend; lover”) is unknown, but may also be derived from the adjective. Cognates * Dutch murw (“tender”) * German mürbe (“soft, tender”) * German Low German möör (“tender”) * Old Norse mör (“tender; aching”) (Icelandic meyr (“tender”)) * Saterland Frisian muur (“tender”) * West Frisian murf (“tender”)
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