sober
英 ['s??b?]
美['sob?]
- adj. 冷静的，清醒的；未醉的
- vt. 使严肃；使醒酒，使清醒
- n. (Sober)人名；(英)索伯
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词态变化
第三人称单数:?sobers;过去式:?sobered;过去分词:?sobered;现在分词:?sobering;比较级:?soberer;最高级:?soberest;副词:?soberly;
英文词源
- sober
- sober: [13] Sober comes via Old French sobre from Latin sōbrius ‘not drunk’. This was the opposite of ēbrius ‘drunk’ (source of French ivre ‘drunk’ and English inebriate [15]), but where ēbrius came from, and precisely what connection the presumably related sōbrius has with it, are not known.
=> inebriate - sober (v.)
- late 14c., "reduce to a quiet condition" (transitive), from sober (adj.). Meaning "render grave or serious" is from 1726. Intransitive sense of "become sober" (since 1847 often with up) is from 1820. Related: Sobered; sobering.
- sober (adj.)
- mid-14c., "moderate in desires or actions, temperate, restrained," especially "abstaining from strong drink," also "calm, quiet, not overcome by emotion," from Old French sobre "decent; sober" (12c.), from Latin sobrius "not drunk, temperate, moderate, sensible," from a variant of se- "without" (see se-) + ebrius "drunk," of unknown origin. Meaning "not drunk at the moment" is from late 14c.; also "appropriately solemn, serious, not giddy." Related: Soberly; soberness. Sobersides "sedate, serious-minded person" is recorded from 1705.
双语例句
- 1. He was left to sober up in a police cell.
- 他被留在一间拘留室里醒酒。
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- 2. When Dad was sober he was a good father.
- 不喝醉的时候，爸爸是一个好父亲。
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- 3. These pressures come not from unthinking lawyer-bashers, but from sober legal reformers.
- 这些压力并非来自于那些对律师心怀不满的轻率之人，而是来自于那些头脑冷静的司法改革家。
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- 4. We are now far more sober and realistic.
- 我们现在清醒、现实多了。
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- 5. I need you sane and sober.
- 我要你清醒、冷静。
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