comfort

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comfort /ˈkʌmfət/ (comforting,comforted,comforts)

1. N-UNCOUNT If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations. 舒服
This will enable the audience to sit in comfort while watching the shows. 這能使觀衆看縯出時舒服地坐著。
2. N-UNCOUNT Comfort is a style of life in which you have enough money to have everything you need. 舒適
Surely there is some way of ordering our busy lives so that we can live in comfort and find spiritual harmony too. 一定會有辦法把我們繁忙的生活安排得既舒適又能找到內心平靜。
3. N-UNCOUNT Comfort is what you feel when worries or unhappiness stop. 安慰
He welcomed the truce, but pointed out it was of little comfort to families spending Christmas without a loved one. 他歡迎休戰，但指出這對於沒有親人共度聖誕節的家庭竝無多少安慰。
They will be able to take some comfort from inflation figures due on Friday. 他們將會從預定在周五發佈的通貨膨脹數字中得到些安慰。
4. N-COUNT 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. 安慰
It's a comfort talking to you. 與你談談是一種安慰。
5. N-COUNT Comforts are things which make your life easier and more pleasant, such as electrical devices you have in your home. 使生活舒適的東西
She enjoys the material comforts married life has brought her. 她享受著婚姻生活帶給她的物質上的舒適。
6. V-T If you comfort someone, you make them feel less worried, unhappy, or upset, for example by saying kind things to them. 安慰
Ned put his arm around her, trying to comfort her. 內德摟著她，試圖安慰她。
7. PHRASE If you say that something is, for example, too close for comfort, you mean you are worried because it is closer than you would like it to be. 因 (比如太近) 而使人不安的
The bombs fell in the sea, many too close for comfort. 那些炸彈落進了海裡，很多落得太近而使人不安。