leaven

noun

1. 发酵剂；（尤指）酵母，面肥
   a substance, especially yeast , that is added to bread before it is cooked to make it rise
   1. A few jokes add leaven to a boring speech.
      几句笑话可给枯燥无味的演讲增添活跃的气氛。

verb

1. （添加…）使较有趣，使更令人愉快
   to make sth more interesting or cheerful by adding sth to it
   1. Her speech was leavened with a touch of humour.
      几分幽默使她的讲话更为有趣。

1. VERB 给…添趣；为…增色；使生动
   If a situation or activity is leavened by or with something, it is made more interesting or cheerful.
   1. His mood of deep pessimism cannot have been leavened by his mode of transport—a black cab...
      他极度悲观沮丧，而他的代步工具——一辆黑色的出租车，丝毫不能舒缓这一情绪。
   2. He found congenial officers who knew how to leaven war's rigours with riotous enjoyment.
      他找到了懂得用狂欢来冲淡战争的严酷的志趣相投的军官。

1. His mood of deep pessimism cannot have been leavened by his mode of transport — a black cab
   他极度悲观沮丧，而他的代步工具——一辆黑色的出租车，丝毫不能舒缓这一情绪。
2. He found congenial officers who knew how to leaven war's rigours with riotous enjoyment.
   他找到了懂得用狂欢来冲淡战争的严酷的志趣相投的军官。
3. How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
   我对你们说、要防备法利赛人和撒都该人的酵、这话不是指著饼说的.你们怎麽不明白呢。
4. And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
   耶稣嘱咐他们说，你们要谨慎，防备法利赛人的酵，和希律的酵。
5. Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
   他又对他们讲个比喻说，天国好像面酵，有妇人拿来，藏在三斗面里，直等全团都发起来。
6. General occupational competencies like problem solving and critical thinking are the patient capital in most occupations nowadays. They enable and leaven further learning in applied contexts.
   像解决问题和批判性思维这样的通用职业能力如今在大多数职业领域都是耐心资本，它们使人能够在应用环境中进一步学习并发挥潜移默化的影响。
7. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
   岂不知一点面酵能使全团发起来吗。
8. Objective To investigate the cholesterol-reducing effects of complex bacteria leaven ( CBL) from Kefir Grain milk yoghurt in experimental hypercholesterolemia rats.
   目的探讨藏灵菇源酸奶复合菌发酵剂对实验性高胆固醇血症大鼠降胆固醇作用。
9. No meal offering that you present to Jehovah shall be made with leaven, for you shall not burn any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to jehovah.
   你们献给耶和华的素祭都不可搀酵；因为你们不可烧一点酵、一点蜜当作火祭献给耶和华。
10. How is it that you do not understand that it was not about bread that I spoke to you? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and sadducees.
    你们怎么不明白？我对你们所说的，不是指着饼，乃是指着要提防法利赛人和撒都该人的酵。
11. And, because of the pervasive power of leaven they were not allowed to bring any of it out of Egypt.
    并且，正因为面酵的能力，他们不能够将面酵带出埃及。
12. You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense.
    你们是联系我国防御系统全部机构的酵母。
13. Bread is one of the most ancient of human foods, and the use of yeasts to leaven bread is carefully depicted in paintings from ancient Egypt.
    面包是最古老的人类食品之一，早在古埃及时代，就有利用酵母发酵面包的详细的描述。
14. The leaven of reform working in their minds;
    变革的媒介在他们的头脑中运作；
15. We give them a sense of humor because laughter leaven life.
    我们要给予他们幽默感，因为笑声可以使生活更轻松。
16. And Jesus said to them, take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and sadducees.
    耶稣对他们说、你们要谨慎、防备法利赛人和撒都该人的酵。
17. Mt.13:33 Another parable He spoke to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.
    太十三33他对他们另讲一个比喻说，诸天的国好像面酵，有妇人拿去藏在三斗面里，直到全团都发了酵。
18. This small piece of leaven works silently and persistently to impact the entire dough.
    这一小块面酵静悄悄，但又持续不断的工作，直到把全团都发起来。
19. Study on the cholesterol-reducing effects of complex bacteria leaven from Kefir grain milk yoghurt in rats
    藏灵菇源酸奶复合菌发酵剂对大鼠降胆固醇的研究
20. A leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread.
    一种发酵的生面团酵母，探矿者用来做面包。
21. Lk. 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.
    路十三21好像面酵，有妇人拿去藏在三斗面里，直到全团都发了酵。
22. If thy oblation be from the frying pan, of flour tempered with oil, and without leaven.
    若你的祭品是用烤盘做的素祭，该用油调的无酵细面做成。
23. Jiaozi is Chinese traditional leaven for paste.
    酵子是我国传统的面团发酵剂。
24. And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
    任你们献有酵的感谢祭，把甘心祭宣传报告给众人，因为是你们所喜爱的。这是主耶和华说的。
25. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
    你们既是无酵的面，应当把旧酵除净，好使你们成为新团。
26. A few clever students can leaven the whole lump.
    几个聪明学生可以使整个班级活跃起来。
27. A few bright and interested minds can leaven the whole lump.
    少数几个聪明的、有兴趣于学习的学生可以活跃全班的学习气氛。
28. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
    你不可将我祭物的血和有酵的饼一同献上。逾越节的祭物也不可留到早晨。
29. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?
    你们岂不知道少许的酵母，能使整个面团发酵吗？

noun

1. an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something
   1. his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor

   Synonym:    leavening

2. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

   Synonym:    leavening

verb

1. cause to puff up with a leaven
   1. unleavened bread

   Synonym:    raiseprove