One way to hold it: a softness that makes everything around it go gentle. Meat that gives way under a knife, a that hurts at a touch, a young plant that bends, a person who handles you carefully — all of them share the same picture of something soft and the light hand it asks for.
一種「不敢用力」的狀態。手放上去的時候會自動放輕——因為對方軟、對方痛、對方還小、對方經不起壓。tenderness 就是這個「軟」與「因為軟而必須輕」的組合：肉是軟的所以好咬，傷處是軟的所以一碰就痛，年紀還小所以還沒長硬，而人對人的溫柔，也正是同一件事——察覺到對方有柔軟的地方，於是把力道收起來。
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tendernessnoun/ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/
- 1
Quality, state or condition of being tender.
- He picked her up in his arms with great tenderness.
- 2
A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings.
- When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.
- I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen.
- 3
A concern for the feelings or welfare of others.
- When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.
- Everybody needs a little tenderness sometimes.
- 4
medicinepathologysciencesA pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched.
- He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.
- Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。