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单词 temper
释义
noun | verb
tempertemper1 /ˈtɛmpɚ/ ●●○ noun Collocations
COLLOCATIONS
 Robin has quite a temper.
 Jill needs to learn to control her temper.
 I wouldn’t argue with him too much – he’s got a short temper.
 Tempers flared (=people became angry) during the protest.
 She’s been in a bad temper all day.
 The king would fly into a temper without warning (=become angry very quickly).
1TENDENCY TO BE ANGRY [countable, uncountable] a tendency to become angry suddenly:  Robin has quite a temper. Jill needs to learn to control her temper.a bad/quick/violent etc. temper I wouldn’t argue with him too much – he’s got a short temper. Tempers flared (=people became angry) during the protest.2lose your temper (with somebody/something) to suddenly become so angry that you cannot control yourself:  I’ve never seen him lose his temper with anyone.3keep your temper to stay calm when it would be easy to get angry:  It was hard to keep my temper when she was behaving so badly.4ATTITUDE [singular] formal the general attitude that people have in a particular place at one time SYN mood: temper of Gandhi knew the temper of the country.5EMOTIONAL STATE [singular, uncountable] the way you are feeling at a particular time, especially when you are angry for a short time: in a good/bad/foul etc. temper She’s been in a bad temper all day. The king would fly into a temper without warning (=become angry very quickly). → see also bad-tempered, even-tempered, ill-tempered, -tempered
noun | verb
tempertemper2 verb [transitive] Etymology
ETYMOLOGYtemper2
Origin: 900-1000 Latin temperare to divide up properly, mix, keep within proper limits, temper
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
temper
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theytemper
he, she, ittempers
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theytempered
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave tempered
he, she, ithas tempered
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad tempered
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill temper
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have tempered
Continuous Form
PresentIam tempering
he, she, itis tempering
you, we, theyare tempering
PastI, he, she, itwas tempering
you, we, theywere tempering
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been tempering
he, she, ithas been tempering
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been tempering
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be tempering
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been tempering
1formal to make something less severe or extreme, especially by adding something that has the opposite effect: temper something with something They have tempered their enthusiasm with common sense.2to make metal as hard as is needed by heating it and then putting it in cold water → see also tempered
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