temper
n. (钢等的)硬度, 脾气, 心情, 中和剂, 倾向, 回火 vt. 使回火, 锻炼, 调和, 使缓和 vi. 回火
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教材释义与例句
脾气；（钢等）回火；性情；倾向
使回火；锻炼；调和；使缓和
回火；调和
释义与例句
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A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
脾气
可数 不可数to have a good, bad, or calm temper
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State of mind; mood.
心情
心境
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A tendency to become angry.
可数 不可数to have a hasty temper
He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
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Anger; a fit of anger.
可数 不可数an outburst of temper
When I heard about it I got myself into a terrible temper.
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Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
可数 不可数to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
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Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
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Middle state or course; mean; medium.
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The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
可数 不可数the temper of mortar
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The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
回火
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The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
可数 不可数the temper of iron or steel
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Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
可数 历史 不可数1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xciv-xcv, All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.
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A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
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To moderate or control.
缓和
Temper your language around children.
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To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
回火
淬硬
Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.
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To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
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To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
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To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
揉和
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To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
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To govern; to manage.
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To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
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To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
古体Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.
1682 (first performance), Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
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To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
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From Middle English temperen, tempren, from Old English ġetemprian, temprian, borrowed from Latin temperō (“(transitive) to divide or proportion duly, to moderate, to regulate; (intransitive) to be moderate, temperate”), from tempus (“time, fit season”). Compare also French tempérer. Doublet of tamper. See temporal.
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