"defused" in Chinese (Simplified)

• 拆除（炸弹）
• 缓和（局势）

Definition

“Defused” 指的是已经安全地消除了爆炸物的威胁，比如炸弹，或指已经缓和了紧张或危险的局面。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))

常用于炸弹（字面意思），也可以用于缓和紧张气氛（如 'defused the tension'）。常以被动形式出现（‘the bomb was defused’）。不要和 'diffused'（扩散）混淆。

Examples

The police defused the bomb before it exploded.

警察在爆炸前**拆除了**炸弹。

He defused the situation with a joke.

他用一个玩笑话**缓和了**局势。

The threat was quickly defused by the negotiator.

威胁被谈判者迅速**缓和了**。

Tensions in the meeting were defused when someone brought coffee.

有人带来咖啡后，会议上的紧张气氛被**缓和了**。

Thanks to her calm approach, the argument was defused before it got worse.

多亏她冷静的态度，争吵在变糟之前被**化解了**。

By the time the team arrived, the device had already been defused.

等团队到达时，装置已经被**拆除了**。