新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

comfort

英 [ˈkʌmfət]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

comforts
1. [U 不可数名词] 舒服
If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
双语例句
例：
This will enable the audience to sit in comfort while watching the shows.
这能使观众舒舒服服地坐着看演出。
2. [U 不可数名词] 舒适
Comfort is a style of life in which you have enough money to have everything you need.
双语例句
例：
Surely there is some way of ordering our busy lives so that we can live in comfort and find spiritual harmony too.
一定会有办法把我们繁忙的生活安排得既舒适又能达到内心平静。
3. [U 不可数名词] 安慰
Comfort is what you feel when worries or unhappiness stop.
双语例句
例：
He welcomed the truce, but pointed out it was of little comfort to families spending Christmas without a loved one.
他欢迎休战，但指出这对于没有亲人共度圣诞节的家庭并无多少安慰。
例：
They will be able to take some comfort from inflation figures due on Friday.
他们将会从预定在周五发布的通货膨胀数字中得到些安慰。
4. [C 可数名词] 安慰
If you refer to a person, thing, or idea as a comfort, you mean that it helps you to stop worrying or makes you feel less unhappy.
双语例句
例：
It's a comfort talking to you.
和你说说话让我心里好受多了。
5. [C 可数名词] 使生活舒适的东西
Comforts are things which make your life easier and more pleasant, such as electrical devices you have in your home.
双语例句
例：
She enjoys the material comforts married life has brought her.
她享受着婚姻生活带给她的物质上的舒适。

PHRASE. 习语

too close etc for comfort
1. 因（比如太近）而使人不安的
If you say that something is too close for comfort, you mean you are worried because it is closer than you would like it to be.
双语例句
例：
The bombs fell in the sea, many too close for comfort.
那些炸弹落进了海里，很多落得离岸边太近而使人不安。

VERB. 动词

comforts , comforting , comforted
1. [T 及物动词] 安慰
If you comfort someone, you make them feel less worried, unhappy, or upset, for example by saying kind things to them.
近义词
console
双语例句
例：
Ned put his arm around her, trying to comfort her.
内德搂着她，试图安慰她。