英语单词“humouring”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 humouring 释义 humouringpresent participle ofhumourhumourverb[T]UK(UShumor)uk

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/?hju?.m?/to do what someonewantsso that they do notbecomeannoyedorupset:Iappliedfor thejobjust to humour myparents.

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(Definition ofhumouringfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhumouring

humouring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

We should allow them the chance ofhumouringsome of their colleagues on the back benches, though those back benches are rather empty at the moment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It has been also asserted that his father, discovering this trick, tried to conciliate him by indulgence,humouringhis whims and encouraging his low tastes.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/humouring##