缓和下来

Had the Reformation, after attaining a degree of success, consented to temporize to secure favor with the world, it would have been untrue to God and to itself, and would thus have ensured its own destruction.

如果改革运动在取得一点成功之后，随即缓和下来，以讨世人的喜悦，那就是既不忠于上帝，又不忠于自己，而且必要注定自己的败亡。

After the talk, he began to thaw.

谈话之后，他的态度开始缓和下来。

I asked him to tone it down a bit, and that's where we ended out.

我问他缓和下来一点，那就是我们结束了。

She tried to tone down his anger.

她试图使他的愤怒缓和下来。

But when the crisis abated, the order of the day was triumphalism, not soul-searching.

但当危机缓和下来，当道的是乐观主义，而不是自我检讨的声音。

Allowing people to savor his personality (which is the real purpose of a whistle-stop) while thawing them out with an anecdote.

用一则轶事把人们的情绪缓和下来，同时让人们贪图他的风度（这就是短暂露面的真正目的）。

The tension began to ease off when she learned theat the operation was a success.

当她了解到手术很成功之后，她的紧张心情开始缓和下来。

In his Analogy of Religion (1736), Butler used the basic Thomistic approach but toned it down a bit with his emphasis on probability, the very guide of life.

&在他的比喻宗教（ 1736 ），巴特勒用基本thomistic方法，但缓和下来一点，他强调概率，&非常引导的生活。

The recent public anxiety about this issue may now be abating.

近来公众对这个问题的焦虑心情现在也许正在缓和下来。

He waited till Mole's sobs became gradually less stormy and more rhythmical; he waited till at last

河鼠等着，等到鼹鼠的哭泣逐渐缓和下来，不再是狂风暴雨，而变得多少有节奏了，等到鼹鼠只管抽鼻子，间或夹杂几声啜泣。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。