Did you live down with the monkeys?" asked the other, made tepidly garrulous by the sunshine and the alleviating meal of juicy fruit. "I was down there, once myself. But only for a few hours. That was when I was with the Columbia Detective Agency. The monkey people did me up. I'd have my job yet if it hadn't been for them. I'll tell you about it.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
The porter came and brushed the collection of soot on the window-sill off to the left knee of my trousers. I removed it with an air of apology. The temperature was eighty-eight. One of the dotted-veiled ladies demanded the closing of two more ventilators, and spoke loudly of Interlaken. I leaned back idly in chair No. 7, and looked with the tepidest curiosity at the small, black, bald-spotted head just visible above the back of No.英文原著 · 《Options》
Hence, inasmuch as on the act conceptive
The affection followeth, of love the sweetness
Therein diversely fervid is or tepid.英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
After seven months of this tepid happiness, a little thing occurred, one of those seemingly small matters which imply such great development of thought and such widespread trouble of the soul, that only the bare fact can be recorded; the interpretation of it must be left to the fancy of each individual mind. One day, when M. de Nueil had been shooting over the lands of Manerville and Valleroy, he crossed Mme. de Beauseant's park on his way home, summoned Jacques, and when the man came, asked him, "Whether the Marquise was as fond of game as ever?"英文原著 · 《The Deserted Woman》
Ellida. Fresh! The water here never is fresh. It is so tepid and lifeless. The water in the fjord here is sick.英文原著 · 《The Lady From The Sea》
And for that, I will write a tepid character, which may enable you to find employment elsewhere.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
The water's tepid, the salt didn't dissolve and is now lodged places.美剧 · 《Friends》
You want to do it the old way with the same tired songs, the same drab choreography, the same tepid applause from mom and dad?美剧 · 《Modern Family》