sedate
sedate 英 [sɪˈdeɪt] 美 [sɪˈdet]
adj. 安静的；沉着的 vt. 给…服镇静剂
进行时:sedating 过去式:sedated 过去分词:sedated 第三人称单数:sedates
- Sedate means to be calm, but if a doctor sedates you it means you've been administered a tranquilizing drug. Most surgeries require some form of sedation, but to be sedate in day-to-day life means composed, quiet, and serene. Not necessarily unconscious.
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- adj. 安静的；沉着的
- vt. 给…服镇静剂
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1. Proponents of the Sleeping Beauty diet sedate themselves heavily for many days, so that when they wake up they’re much thinner.
很多睡美人饮食的支持者通过多日沉重而安静的睡去,所以当他们醒来的时候,他们更瘦了。
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2. The party staged by Forbes, the swashbuckling celebrator of capitalism, American-style, was sedate, sparsely attended, devoid of young people.
吹捧财富的福布斯举办的美式聚会非常安静，很少有人参加，根本看不到年轻的面孔。
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3. It can produce repulsive gravity to drive cosmic inflation in the big bang, while later on it could generate the more sedate acceleration that is ascribed to dark energy.
它可以产生与万有引力相反的斥力，产生大爆炸中的暴涨，随后使宇宙产生更为平稳的加速度，这种加速度归因为暗能量。
- sedate (adj.) "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." Related: Sedately.
- sedate (v.) "treat with sedatives," 1945, a back-formation from the noun derivative of sedative (adj.). The word also existed 17c. in a sense "make calm or quiet." Related: Sedated; sedating.
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