[每日] emollient (a) 使柔軟的
Word of the Day (Wednesday November 26, 2008)
emollient \ih-MOL-yuhnt\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/59550
1. softening or soothing
noun:
1. something that softens or soothes
But his more emollient approach, winning hearts and minds through
old-fashioned forms of persuasion, will also be crucial to
building a coalition willing to act against Saddam's most
dangerous weapons.
-- J.F.O. McAllister, In The Line Of Fire, Time, March 24, 1998
He unties the red rag, sweat-blackened, from around his neck and,
dressed only in his wide-brimmed hat, steps into the tub, his
feet, so recently liberated, reveling in the emollient power of
the steaming water, seasoned with bath salts whose aroma bespeaks
a distant land, one where flowers grow, or grew.
-- Robert Coover, Ghost Town
During this anxious time, the little girl 'acted as a useful
emollient to jaded nerves,' a kind of harp-playing David to the
troubled Monarch's Saul.
-- Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II
by 1643, from French emollient, from Latin emollientem, prp. of
emollire "soften," from ex- "out" + mollire "soften," from mollis
"soft."
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