couched

英 [kaʊtʃt]

美 [kaʊtʃt]

v.  (用某种文体或方式)表达，措辞
couch的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• 长沙发;长榻
  Acouchis a long, comfortable seat for two or three people.
• (病人接受检查或治疗时的)诊察台
  Acouchis a narrow bed which patients lie on while they are being examined or treated by a doctor.
• VERB (以某种语言风格)表达，措词
  If a statementis couched ina particular style of language, it is expressed in that style of language.
  1. The new centre-right government's radical objectives are often couched in moderate terms...
     新的中右翼政府经常以温和的语言表述其激进的目标。
  2. This time the proposal was couched as an ultimatum.
     这一次该提议是以最后通牒的形式提出来的。

双语例句

• The booklet was couched in legal jargon.
  这本小册子是用法律界的行话写成的。
• This decision is couched in this forms.
  该决议以这种形式表达。
• His thoughts were couched in beautiful language.
  他以美好的语言表达自己的思想。
• The announcement followed an interior ministry statement couched as both an appeal and a warning.
  此前内政部发表了一份声明，被视为既是呼吁，又是警告。
• Although it has not made any correction of the letter to the red army, its subsequent directives have not been couched in the same pessimistic tone and its views on the red army's operations now coincide with ours.
  对于红军的这一封信，虽然没有更正，但是后来的指示，就没有那些悲观的论调了，对于红军行动的主张也和我们的主张一致了。
• His letter was couched in conciliatory terms.
  他那封信里使用了表示和解的言辞。
• The woman was very good at commending: her orders were all couched in soft-toned imperative sentences.
  女人发号施令的手段很高明，使用的都是口气柔和的祈使句。
• The refusal was couched in friendly language.
  他用友善的语言表达了拒绝之意。
• Prevarication couched in pious homilies may no longer suffice.
  表述在虔诚的布道中的支吾可能不再足够。
• During the civil-rights era, segregationists often couched their position as a defence of "states'rights";
  在民权时代，种族隔离主义者常常隐晦地表示，他们是在捍卫“各州的权利”；