| 单词 | comforting |
| 释义 | comfortingWord family noun comfort discomfort comforter comfortablenesscomfortlessnesscomfort foodcomfort zoneadjective comfortable ≠ uncomfortable comforting comfortlesscomfyverb comfort adverb comfortably ≠ uncomfortably comfortingly com·fort·ing /ˈkʌmfətɪŋ $ -fər-/ adjectiveadj making you feel less worried, unhappy, or upset 令人宽慰的，解忧的 SYN reassuring it is comforting to think/have/know etc It’s comforting to know I can call my parents any time. 知道我可以随时给父母打电话，我就放心了。 With this comforting thought, Harry fell asleep. 怀着这个宽心的想法，哈里进入了梦乡。 His voice was strangely comforting. 他的嗓音出奇地让人感到安慰。 —comfortingly adverbadv Examples from the Corpus comforting• Being able to visit the grave and talk to your pet can also be very comforting.• She had been comforting about the chances of the baby being born all right, hadn't she?• The house seemed to put comforting arms around her, as she wandered from room to room.• She laid a comforting hand on my arm.• He seemed to be a reassuring, comforting presence.• I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it.• Stefan tried to think of something comforting to say.• It was comforting to see the lights of home.• The need to go into space, an extension of the comforting vacuum. comforting thought• An umbrella of protective sky-borne weapons over every single house was a comforting thought.• She had another, less comforting thought.• Somehow that was a comforting thought.• Not a comforting thought for a country with a £17 billion trade deficit.• That must be a comforting thought for a family about to be evicted.• Apart from the implications of this for prayers and strategy, it was a comforting thought - so long as one was winning.• I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it. |
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