tender
tender 英 [ˈtendə(r)] 美 [ˈtɛndɚ]
adj. 温柔的；柔软的；脆弱的；幼稚的；难对付的 n. 偿付，清偿；看管人；小船 vt. 提供，偿还；使…变嫩；使…变柔软
进行时:tendering 过去式:tendered 过去分词:tendered 第三人称单数:tenders 名词复数:tenders
- If you're tender, it means you're fragile, sensitive, easily bruised or gentle. Young, easily cut beef and a sentimental heart can both be called tender.
- 请先登录
- adj. 温柔的；柔软的；脆弱的；幼稚的；难对付的
- n. 偿付，清偿；看管人；小船
- vt. 提供，偿还；使…变嫩；使…变柔软
- vi. 投标；变柔软
-
1. With tender majesty.
用温柔的庄严。
-
2. He had two faces. I saw him so tender with the ones he loved, then you see the cartel killings.
他有两副面孔，我看见他对所爱的人无比温柔，然后又看见卡特尔里的无情杀戮。
-
3. If it is true that the only paradises are those we have lost, I know what name to give the tender and inhuman something that dwells in me today.
据说只有失去的才是乐园。 果真如此，我就知道怎样称呼今天停驻在我心中的、那温柔而不近人情的事物了。
- tender (adj.) "soft, easily injured," early 13c., from Old French tendre "soft, delicate; young" (11c.), from Latin tenerem (nominative tener) "soft, delicate; of tender age, youthful," from a derivative of PIE root *ten- "to stretch," on the notion of "stretched," hence "thin," hence "weak" or "young." Compare Sanskrit tarunah "young, tender," Greek teren "tender, delicate," Armenian t'arm "young, fresh, green."
- tender (n.1) "person who tends another," late 15c., probably an agent noun formed from Middle English tenden "attend to" (see tend (v.2)); later extended to locomotive engineers (1825) and barmen (1883). The meaning "small boat used to attend larger ones" first recorded 1670s.
- tender (n.2) "formal offer for acceptance," 1540s, from tender (v.). Specific sense of "money offered as payment" is from 1740, in legal tender "currency which by law must be accepted from a debtor" (see legal).
- tender (v.) "to offer formally," 1540s, from Middle French tendre "to offer, hold forth" (11c.), from Latin tendere "to stretch, extend," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." The retention of the ending of the French infinitive is unusual (see render (v.) for another example).
- 请先登录
0 个回复