moderation
/ˌmɑdəˈɹeɪʃən/ 名词 B2中文： 适度
- The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes.
- An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way.
- The process of moderating a discussion. · The moderation of a large online forum can be hard work.
- Usage of neutron moderator to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
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I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is _too much_.
His attentions to Miss King were now the consequence of views solely and hatefully mercenary; and the mediocrity of her fortune proved no longer the moderation of his wishes, but his eagerness to grasp at anything.
Owing to this change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment—we will not say all powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of “moderation”—but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantès.
The count smiled as if the child bade fair to realize his hopes, while Madame de Villefort reprimanded her son with a gentleness and moderation very far from conveying the least idea of a fault having been committed.
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