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To subdue someone or something means to bring it under control, often using force or a lot of effort, so it stops fighting, moving, or causing trouble - like police subduing a violent person, or subduing a fire. It can also mean making a feeling, sound, or person quieter and less intense - 'her voice was subdued' means she spoke more softly than usual.
制伏、壓制；使平靜
組成This word probably comes from Latin roots meaning 'to lead under' - sub- (under) + a form of 'to lead'.
同家族的字
- conductshares the same Latin root meaning 'to lead'
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
subdueverb/səbˈdu/
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To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
- And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, Share equally the gold that bought their liues, And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]
- Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.
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To bring (a country) under control by force.
- In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。