词为我用 - sedate

词汇释义

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UK  /sɪˈdeɪt/ US  /səˈdeɪt/

1. adj, If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull.安静的，庄重的，不苟言笑的，平淡无奇的

2. adj, If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way.不慌不忙的，慢悠悠的，从容的

3. verb, If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep.给…...施用镇静剂

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外刊例句

1. According to News 12, Nunez was on probation at the time of the attack, and needed to be sedated after allegedly kicking a different police officer in the face at the hospital.(Fox News)

2. False alarms about vaccines spread with viral intensity along our usually sedate suburban street.(Washington Post)

3. They put him a neckhold, pinned him down and asked paramedics to sedate him with ketamine.(Seattle Times)

4. Without an examination and misjudging McClain’s weight by nearly half, a technician injected enough of the drug to sedate a 200-pound man.(Washington Post)

5. In some instances, medical staff reluctantly prescribe sedating drugs to counter these new behaviors, in part because opportunities for “non-pharmacological interventions,” like exercise and socialization, are scant or forbidden.(New York Times)

6. They began as relatively sedate invitations to the audience: “Are you ready for star time?”(Washington Post)

7. If HBO executives knew that “Here and Now” was a miss — as its sedate marketing campaign suggested — they are telegraphing the opposite for “Sharp Objects.”(New York Times)

8. For iron ore especially, keeping mines churning at a sedate—and not frantic—pace will remain the key to keeping prices decently high over the medium term.(Wall Street Journal)

9. As I wrote in August, the stock market in 2017 was magical — so strangely sedate that it was statistically improbable.(New York Times)

10. They all made a list of the world’s most extreme jobs, at least according to YourTradeBase, a company that helps other businesses with the entirely sedate job of completing their paperwork.(Time)

11. Some choices, like a 600-horsepower sports car would seem obvious, but among the cars on our costliest-to-insure list includes what might otherwise seem to be a sedate luxury station wagon.(Forbes)

12. “They stop being the kind of funky, creative places we enjoy, and become sedate and snobby—and so we move on.”(The New Yorker)

词汇搭配

sedate pace, walk, people | sedate people with

词汇家族

sedately, sedative

词汇来源

"calm, quiet," 1660s, from Latin sedatus "composed, moderate, quiet, tranquil," past participle of sedare "to settle, calm," causative of sedere "to sit," from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit."

近义词

earnest, grave, humorless, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty, calm, collected, composed, cool, level, limpid, peaceful, placid, smooth, tranquil, undisturbed, unperturbed, unruffled, unshaken, untroubled, unworried

反义词

facetious, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful, agitated, discomposed, disturbed, flustered, perturbed, unglued, unhinged, unstrung, upset

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