relent

音标发音

• 英式音标 [rɪˈlent]
• 美式音标 [rɪˈlɛnt]
• 国际音标 [ri'lent]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• vi. 变温和，变宽厚；减弱；缓和
• vt. 使变温和；减轻
• v. 再借给（relend的过去分词）

词根记忆

• re + lent(柔软的)→心肠软了下来→变温和，变宽厚
• re + lent(借)→借钱给人缓和他的经济困难→缓和

同根派生

• relent相关词

英汉例句

• The police will not relent in their fight against crime.
  警方在跟犯罪分子的斗争中决不手软.
• Your own family might in time relent.
  你自己的家庭总有一天会变温和.
• I confess the inhumanity of this action moved me very much, and made me relent exceedingly.
  我自认这种不人道的举动使我很痛心, 我非常怜悯她.
• I confess the inhumanity of this action moved me very much, and made me relent exceedingly.
  我自认这种不人道的举动使我很痛心, 我非常怜悯她.
• The police will not relent in their fight against crime.
  警方在跟犯罪分子的斗争中决不手软.

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词组短语

短语

• relent t 减弱;动怜悯心;变温和
• milden relent 变温和
• to relent 让步
• relent detail 变仁慈
• be less intrasigent relent 指口头上不再坚持

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• to act in a less severe way towards someone and allow something that you had refused to allow before

柯林斯英英字典

• If you relent, you allow someone to do something that you had previously refused to allow them to do.

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