mellowed

[ˈmeləud]
  • 释义

  • （使）成熟( mellow的过去式和过去分词 );使色彩更加柔和，使酒更加醇香;

  • 词义辨析
  • mellow, mature, ripe
  • 这组词共同的意思是“成熟”,它们的区别在于:
    1.ripe和mellow都可表示“成熟可供食用”, ripe可用于水果、谷物、酒、奶酪等,而mellow只用于水果,不用于谷物。用于水果时, ripe侧重可供食用,而mellow侧重其成熟甘甜而引人喜爱。例如:
    Apples are at their best in the autumn when they are at their fattest and most mellow.秋天,苹果最好吃,长得最大、最甜。
    2.ripe, mature和mellow都可用于修饰人, mature指人生理上的成熟,而ripe和mellow指人思想、心理、感情、行为上的成熟老练; mellow只用于褒义,而ripe不仅可以用于褒义,还可用于贬义,指“老朽,粗俗”。例如:
    A marriage contracted in mature years often turns out best.成熟年龄阶段结合的婚姻通常证明是最佳婚姻。
    I've seen him grow more mellow over the years.我看他这些年来渐渐成熟起来。
    That joke was rather ripe.那个笑话太粗俗了。
  • mellow, age, develop, mature, ripen
  • 这组词的共同含义是“成熟,长成”。它们的区别是：
    mature不仅指身体上,也指精神、智力方面“成熟”; age则侧重“变老,老化”,可指人,也可指物; develop意为“生长,成长”,可指局部的,也可指整体的变化; mellow则指水果成熟、酒酿成,也可指人因年龄的增长,经验的积累而变得老练成熟; 而ripen的意思是“使…成熟”,着重指无生命的东西。
  • 双语例句
  • 1、

    Travel had not mellowed him appreciably.

    游历并未使他明显成熟。

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  • 2、

    Jack Daniels's whiskey is mellowed using Sugar Maple charcoal.

    过滤和软化这种威士忌的是枫木炭.

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  • 3、

    Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

    柔和在那明亮夜光中炫丽的白天只觉这光太强.

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  • 4、

    With age, he mellowed.

    随着年龄的增长, 他更成熟了.

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  • 5、

    He felt only a vast grief which mellowed him.

    他只觉得一股巨大的悲痛涨满了他的心胸.

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  • 6、

    Increasingly of late, the director of research seemed to have mellowed, Celia thought.

    西莉亚想, 近来这位研究部主任似乎越来越老成了.

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  • 7、

    It mellowed his mood toward her.

    这使他对她的心情软化了.

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  • 8、

    The years have mellowed the two brothers.

    岁月使这兄弟俩老成持重了.

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  • 9、

    When the children married and had children of their own, he mellowed a little.

    等孩子们结了婚又有了自己的小孩以后，他变得平和了一些。

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  • 10、

    The apples mellowed after we picked them.

    苹果在我们摘下后变得醇香了.

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  • 11、

    But as the years went by Miss Marple mellowed.

    但随着岁月的流逝,玛波小姐变得可爱起来.

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  • 12、

    Age has mellowed his attitude to some things.

    他随着年龄的增加,对某些事情的看法已日趋成熟.

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  • 13、

    He mellowed considerably as he grew older.

    他随着年龄的增长,变得老成持重多了.

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  • 14、

    The years have mellowed him.

    岁月使他变得老成了.

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  • 15、

    She's mellowed over the years.

    这些年来他变得成熟了.

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