measured

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CAREFULSLOWif you do something in a measured way, you do it in a careful and controlled way, not in an excited or sudden way 慎重的；沉着的

a measured response to the problem

对问题作出的慎重回应

She spoke in measured tones.

她以不慌不忙的语调说话。

Examples from the Corpus

measured• Their strident moralism jarred with both the measured middle-class radicalism of the repealers and the dominant patrician language of high politics.• a calm and measured response• Let us return to the measured tones of Cliff Cunningham.

in measured tones• Before each session, he had watched their suspect sizing up his interrogators, readying his replies in measured tones.

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