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单词 temper-fit
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temper-fit
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as temper-fit, temper-flaw, temper tantrum; temper-spoiling, temper-wearing adjectives.
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1788 W. Cowper Poet's New Year's Gift ii To wish thee fairer is no need,..Or more ingenious, or more freed From temper-flaws unsightly.
1884 W. James in Mind 9 199 In injuries to the brain..we have tears, laughter, and temper-fits, on the most insignificant provocation.
1893 Outing 22 121/2 Fly-fishing is pretty, but it is a futile and temper-spoiling art on a narrow, crooked, bush-grown brook.
1895 R. Kipling in Daily Chron. 3 July 3/7 The mass of profitless, temper-wearing detail that attaches itself to any extended market-work.
1930 G. C. Myers Mod. Parent x. 168 There are vague symptoms of temper tantrum at the age of several weeks when [an infant's] accustomed satisfactions are withheld.
1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 11 Unable To conceive a god whose temper-tantrums are moral.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 73 217 The affected children themselves are liable to behavioural problems such as temper tantrums.
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