answering
['ænsɚ]
[] 应

1. He let a week go by before answering the letter.
   周回。
2. He is always prompt in answering letters.
   总迅速回复。
3. She showed her cunning in the way she avoided answering the question.
   她问题而，她很狡猾。

answering
[ adj ]
replying
<adj.all>
an answering glancean answering smile




Answer \An"swer\ ([a^]n"s[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Answered}
([a^]n"s[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Answering}.] [OE.
andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr.
andswaru, n., answer. See {Answer}, n.]
1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as,
to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or
question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the
like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond
to.

She answers him as if she knew his mind. --Shak.

So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.
--Milton.

3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way
of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like;
to refute.

No man was able to answer him a word. --Matt. xxii.
46.

These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
--Milton.

The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
--Macaulay.

4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence:
(a) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or
satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as,
he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered
the bell.

This proud king . . . studies day and night
To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
--Shak.
(b) To render account to or for.

I will . . . send him to answer thee. --Shak.
(c) To atone; to be punished for.

And grievously hath C[ae]zar answered it.
--Shak.
(d) To be opposite to; to face.

The windows answering each other, we could just
discern the glowing horizon them. --Gilpin.
(e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or
sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.]

Money answereth all things. --Eccles. x.
19.
(f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation,
or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.

Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they
answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
--Swift.