relent
英 [rɪˈlent]
美 [rɪˈlent]
v. 终于答应; 不再拒绝; 变缓和; 变温和; 减弱
过去式：relented 现在分词：relenting 过去分词：relented 第三人称单数：relents 复数：relents
Collins.1 / BNC.18525 / COCA.15454
牛津词典
verb
- 终于答应；不再拒绝
to finally agree to sth after refusing- ‘Well, just for a little while then,’ she said, finally relenting.
“好吧，不过只能待一会儿。”她最后终于答应了。
- ‘Well, just for a little while then,’ she said, finally relenting.
- 变缓和；变温和；减弱
to become less determined, strong, etc.- After two days the rain relented.
两天后，雨势减弱了。 - The police will not relent in their fight against crime.
警方将继续严厉打击犯罪活动。
- After two days the rain relented.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 变宽厚;变温和;心软
If yourelent, you allow someone to do something that you had previously refused to allow them to do.- Finally his mother relented and gave permission for her youngest son to marry.
最后他母亲作出让步，允许她的小儿子结婚。
- Finally his mother relented and gave permission for her youngest son to marry.
- VERB (天气)转晴，缓和，转好
If bad weatherrelents, it improves.- If the weather relents, the game will be finished today.
如果天气转好的话，比赛将在今天结束。
- If the weather relents, the game will be finished today.
英英释义
verb
双语例句
- We will not relent until justice is done and our nation is secure.
我们不会手软，直到我们实现正义，直到我们的国家安全。 - And we have sent a message from the Afghan border to the Arabian Peninsula to all parts of the globe: we will not relent, we will not waver, and we will defeat you.
而且，我们已经从阿富汗边境向阿拉伯半岛直至全世界发出了信息：我们不会怜悯、我们不会动摇、我们会打败你们。 - I will not yield. I will not rest. I will not relent in waging this struggle for the freedom and security of the American people.
我不会屈服，不会停步，为了美国人民的自由和安全，我要顽强地斗争，永不停息。 - Whether the US Treasury will relent and return to an auction remains to be seen.
美国财政部是否会大发慈悲，重新举行拍卖会，这仍有待观察。 - Your own family might in time relent.
你自己的家庭总有一天会变温和。 - That may have pressured Baosteel to relent.
这可能迫使宝钢软化了立场。 - I will not relent in this struggle for the freedom and security of my country and the civilized world.
我不会在这场为我的国家和文明世界的自由与安全所作的斗争中松懈自己的斗志。 - We are pushing for them to relent and let go of those financial resources that they have long coveted.
我们慈悲的希望他们能够放手了，那些被他们掠夺了这么久的金融资源。 - Having nothing more to fear, having scarce anything to hope, for that he would relent there seemed no promise whatever, she lay down dully.
他似乎无论如何也不会宽恕她了，既然已经没有什么可怕的了，也没有什么可盼的了，所以她就感觉迟钝地睡下了。 - And did not the Lord relent, so that he did not bring the disaster he pronounced against them?
耶和华就后悔，不把自己所说的灾祸降与他们。