comfort /ˈkʌmfət/ CET4 TEM4 ( 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

  例：

  This will enable the audience to sit in comfort while watching the shows.

  这能使观众看演出时舒服地坐着。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT Comfort is a style of life in which you have enough money to have everything you need. 舒适

  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找到内心平静。

• 3. 

  N-UNCOUNT Comfort is what you feel when worries or unhappiness stop. 安慰

  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. 

  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

  例：

  It's a comfort talking to you.

  与你谈谈是一种安慰。

• 5. 

  N-COUNT Comforts are things which make your life easier and more pleasant, such as electrical devices you have in your home. 使生活舒适的东西

  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。

• 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

  例：

  Ned put his arm around her, trying to comfort her.

  内德搂着她，试图安慰她。

• 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

  例：

  The bombs fell in the sea, many too close for comfort.

  那些炸弹落进了海里，很多落得太近而使人不安。