| 单词 | soft |
| 释义 | Word Frequency soft(sɒft) adjective 1. easy to dent, work, or cut without shattering; malleable 2. not hard; giving little or no resistance to pressure or weight 3. fine, light, smooth, or fluffy to the touch 4. gentle; tranquil 5. (of music, sounds, etc) low and pleasing 6. (of light, colour, etc) not excessively bright or harsh 7. (of a breeze, climate, etc) temperate, mild, or pleasant 8. dialect drizzly or rainy a soft day the weather has turned soft 9. slightly blurred; not sharply outlined soft focus 10. (of a diet) consisting of easily digestible foods 11. kind or lenient, often excessively so 12. easy to influence or impose upon 13. prepared to compromise; not doctrinaire the soft left 14. informal, derogatory feeble or silly (often in the phrase soft in the head) 15. unable to endure hardship, esp through too much pampering 16. physically out of condition; flabby soft muscles 17. loving; tender soft words 18. informal requiring little exertion; easy a soft job 19. chemistry (of water) relatively free of mineral salts and therefore easily able to make soap lather 20. (of a drug such as cannabis) nonaddictive or only mildly addictive Compare hard (sense 19)21. (of news coverage) concentrating on trivial stories or those with human interest 22. phonetics a. an older word for lenis b. (not in technical usage) denoting the consonants c and g in English when they are pronounced as palatal or alveolar fricatives or affricates (s, /dʒ/, /ʃ/, /ð/, /tʃ/) before e and i, rather than as velar stops (k, g) c. (in the Slavonic languages) palatalized before a front vowel or a special character (soft sign) written as Ь 23. a. unprotected against attack a soft target b. military unarmoured, esp as applied to a truck by comparison with a tank 24. finance, mainly US (of prices, a market, etc) unstable and tending to decline 25. (of a currency) in relatively little demand, esp because of a weak balance of payments situation 26. (of radiation, such as X-rays and ultraviolet radiation) having low energy and not capable of deep penetration of materials 27. physics (of valves or tubes) only partially evacuated 28. related to the performance of non-specific, undefinable tasks soft skills such as customer services and office support 29. soft on adverb 30. in a soft manner to speak soft noun 31. a soft object, part, or piece 32. informal softie exclamation archaic 33. quiet ! 34. wait ! Derived forms softly (ˈsoftly) adverb Word origin Old English sōfte; related to Old Saxon sāfti, Old High German semfti gentle |
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