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adj. 平滑的

  1. She smoothed out wrinkles out of the tablecloth.
    她把桌布上的皱褶弄平。
  2. The smooth contour of the sculpture is wonderful.
    雕塑物平滑的轮廓线简直太美了。


smoothed
[ adj ]
made smooth by ironing
<adj.all>


Smooth \Smooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smoothed} (sm[=oo]thd); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Smoothing}.] [OE. smothen, smethen, AS.
sm[=e][eth]ian; cf. LG. sm["o]den. See {Smooth}, a.]
To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as,
to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.
Specifically:
(a) To free from obstruction; to make easy.

Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay,
And smooth my passage to the realms of day. --Pope.
(b) To free from harshness; to make flowing.

In their motions harmony divine
So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear
Listens delighted. --Milton.
(c) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.
(d) To give a smooth or calm appearance to.

Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm.
--Milton.
(e) To ease; to regulate. --Dryden.

  1. There is ABS (anti-lock braking), though the same unreconstructed Ferrari buyer can deactivate it at the flick of a switch. The gear change has been smoothed.
  2. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Darman and Gingrich had smoothed over their differences in a telephone conversation today, and that Darman was not withdrawing the speech.
  3. You might not know actor Laurence Conroy by name, but he bets you knew his dimples until a plastic surgeon smoothed one away and, so he says, killed his livelihood.
  4. Malden Mills gradually smoothed it out.
  5. They apparently smoothed over their differences during a recent stay in the Caribbean, said Paul Wasserman, a spokesman for Richards.
  6. At the time, Mr. Gatward said his friendship with Mr. Price had smoothed the way for its link with the small British company.
  7. The corporations that built turnpikes smoothed out grades, bridged streams, and applied crushed stone to the roadbed in the form of a rounded crown in order to shed water.
  8. Prince Aya, the youngest son of Emperor Akihito, married graduate student Kiko Kawashima in an elaborate ceremony on June 29. At an official picture-taking session after the wedding, the prince's hair was a little ruffled, and the princess smoothed it.
  9. But senior British ministers and US diplomats said the president had done just that. The differences have been smoothed over.
  10. Egypt's strategic importance in the anti-Iraq coalition also smoothed the way to a particularly favourable 1991 IMF deal, which brought with it an immediate write-off of 15 per cent of Egypt's Dollars 20bn Paris Club debt.
  11. "Puppetry is an ancient art and it's been around probably as long as we have," Diane Rains said as she smoothed the brown yarn hair of Punch, the 2-foot, plastic-headed star of her puppet company, Freshwater Pearls.
  12. The policeman tosses Beria's picture away, but it is picked up, carefully smoothed out and saved by one of the leading members of the small fishing community, a man who will later do more than anyone else to assist the criminals.
  13. Though all the rough spots haven't been smoothed yet, the city's already had sufficient success to serve as a model for Liverpool, Newcastle and those other northerners rich in little but the past.
  14. 'You can't just get off the plane and start a business here,' says Coughlan. CFP's path was smoothed initially by the Irish-Russian joint-venture Irlasto/IVK, which provided the hard-to-get but essential licence.
  15. The Dukakis and Jackson campaigns already had smoothed out most of their differences on the Democratic platform before the Jackson side called a halt to the formal negotiations, Jackson's convention manager said Friday.
  16. Disguising the plight of these states, at least in the national statistics, were the good times experienced in the coastal areas. The latters' results smoothed out the negatives being reported from the interior.
  17. The mud is spread by hand, packed firmly into corners of the mold and smoothed.
  18. The decision to hold joint hearings has further smoothed over partisan tensions.
  19. UN graders smoothed over pot-holed roads. Experts checked the undersides of bridges and spires of temple gates in case of mines.
  20. In the end, the alliance smoothed over the matter by agreeing to postpone a decision on deploying the missile until 1992.
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