tenderness
/ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/ 名词 B2中文： 温柔、柔嫩、触痛
- Quality, state or condition of being tender. · He picked her up in his arms with great tenderness.
- A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings. · When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.
- A concern for the feelings or welfare of others. · When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.· Everybody needs a little tenderness sometimes.
- A pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched. · He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.
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Marilla looked at her with a tenderness that would never have been suffered to reveal itself in any clearer light than that soft mingling of fireshine and shadow.
With a renewal of tenderness, however, they repaired to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee.
He spoke well; but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride.
On this point she was soon satisfied; and two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.
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