例文・使い方で印象づける「softening」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...At length, when we had pulled about half a mile, as nearly as I could judge, I detected a slight suspicion of a softening in the velvety blackness of the sky in the eastern quarter... 
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...Objects much too big for the gizzard are often gulpeddown, and probably receive a preliminary softening andmaceration in the crop...
Henry J. Slack 「Marvels of Pond-life」
...This is a condition of bone brittleness or softening of bone found usuallyin adult life...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Upon their surfaces and within their cleftsand fissures they undergo retrogressive changes, softening, bleeding, orulcerations...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...—An oil is extracted from the feet of oxen—hence calledNeat's-foot-oil—of great use in preparing and softening leather...
George Vasey 「Delineations of the Ox Tribe」
...They indulged in athletic sports tocounteract the softening influence of idleness, and so Quirl Finnerhad no misgivings about the success of his disguise...
Roman Frederick Starzl 「In the Orbit of Saturn」
...Lastly, we see no traces of twilight upon the lunar surface,nor any softening at the edges of shadows; both which effects would beapparent if there were an atmosphere...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
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