| 单词 | comfort |
| 释义 | com·fort I. 1. a. < optimists, those who put their faith in humanity, believers in God … will find little comfort anywhere in Jeffers' work — Time > < give aid and comfort to the enemies of us all > b. < it is a comfort too to have a man tackle his job in the old-fashioned way — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < to give comfort to a bereaved parent > 2. a. < merely getting to the end of the journey provided some comfort > < the sedative gave some small comfort to the patient > b. < living a life of ease and comfort > 3. < I do not find comfort in Greek poetry as I should — H.J.Laski > < having the comfort of a draw on my pipe — Mary Deasy > 4. a. < the son was the comfort of his parents' old age > b. < the comforts of home life > < bathrooms, water supplies, lighting, heating, and the whole array of domestic comforts — Henry Adams > 5. chiefly South & Midland Synonyms: see rest II. transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. obsolete 3. a. b. 4. < comforted his aching feet in a tub of hot water > intransitive verb obsolete Synonyms: < “This war will go on forever”, she would whisper. “It cannot go on for ever”, I would comfort her — H.G.Wells > < he put the letter away. Later it would comfort him, as she meant it to do. Later it might make him happy — Susan Ertz > console, less intimate in suggestion, may stress alleviating grief and disappointment rather than cheering and encouraging < his father's letter gave him one of his many fits of melancholy over his own worthlessness, but the thought of the organ consoled him — Samuel Butler †1902 > < if you really want to console me, teach me rather to forget what has happened — Oscar Wilde > < consoled herself with going to parties, spoiling her babies, and flirting with other people — Rose Macaulay > solace applies to any agency tending to relieve grief, pain, disappointment, chagrin, weariness, despondency < his father's death left Ariosto at the head of a large family, for which he had to provide out of a scanty patrimony. He solaced his cares by classical studies, which made him a fair Latin poet — Richard Garnett > < though you rail against the bar and the imperfect medium of speech, you will be solaced, even in your chagrin, by a sense of injured innocence — B.N.Cardozo > < liberals are constantly tempted to depart from their difficult path and either embrace some simple panacea or else solace themselves with a rather too easy skepticism — M.R.Cohen > |
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