docile

英 ['dəʊsaɪl] 美
  • adj. 温顺的,驯服的;容易教的

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副词: docilely;名词: docility;

中文词源


docile 驯服的

来自词根doc, 教,教导,词源同doctor.引申词义可教导的,可驯服的。

英英释意


1. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed;
"the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
2. ready and willing to be taught;
"docile pupils eager for instruction"
"teachable youngsters"
3. easily handled or managed;
"a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"

英文词源


docile (adj.)
late 15c., "easily taught," from Italian or French docile, from Latin docilis "easily taught," from docere "teach" (see doctor). Sense of "obedient, submissive" first recorded 1774.

实用场景例句


a docile child/horse
听话的孩子;温驯的马

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They wanted a low-cost, docile workforce.
他们想要廉价的、听话的劳动力。

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...docile, obedient children...
温顺、听话的孩子

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With its fangs pulled out, the venomous snake is extraordinarily docile in the exhibitor's hands.
剧毒异蛇被拔掉毒牙后, 在参展商手中变得服服帖帖.

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The sincerity, the docile, tolerate, optimism, live the visual field spacious. Have the loving ability, responsibility.
真诚, 善良, 宽容, 乐观, 生活视野开阔. 具备爱的能力, 责任心.

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Nobody believed that an honest and docile man like him could have been a bandit.
不过大伙儿不大相信,这么一个三脚踢不出屁的老实人还当土匪?

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Giant pandas have very docile temperaments.
大熊猫的性情很温顺.

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Docile. A heart of docile, is a beautiful pit.
善良. 一颗善良的心, 是美丽的核.

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Winter is a cynical character of the juvenile, sometimes docile Lingli , sometimes engage in some mischief.
冬天是一个性格乖戾的少年, 时而温顺伶俐, 时而搞些恶作剧.

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Then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.
后来她要学, 变成了一个驯服 、 聪明 、 用功的学生.

辞典例句

I am a docile, female in sincere Asia. I make firm decision, friendly character.
我是一个善良, 诚恳的亚洲女性. 我有决断, 随和的个性.

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With him they will be gentle and docile as lambs.
阿里的确证明了这一点.

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She habitually bore herself with strange alternations of cool reserve and docile respect to the man.
她向来对这个人的态度总是很不正常,一会儿对他冷淡矜持,一会儿对他温顺尊敬.

辞典例句

No longer a good man a docile kid \ a listener.
以后不做好人,不做乖小孩,不做倾听者.

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The most docile animal was originally the rabbit and lamb.
最温驯的动物原来是兔子和小羊.

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The fault is mine, I should docile you're saying the same year.
我错了, 我当年不该不听您的话.

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Aunt Tamara was docile , girlish, sensitive, impulsive.
塔玛拉姑妈贤淑, 敏感, 女孩子气,很容易冲动.

辞典例句

Circus monkeys are trained to be very docile and obedient.
马戏团的猴子训练得服服贴贴的.

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But she is quick and quiet, docile and clever, sings well, and is of good blood.
不过她机灵而娴静, 温顺而又聪明, 还会唱歌, 出身好.

辞典例句

But plummeting stock prices are spurring normally docile shareholders to rebel.
但股价暴跌正促使平常温顺的股东开始反抗.

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The soldiers were grateful and docile, made almost childlike by their wounds.
士兵们都很感激,很听话, 因为受伤,都变得象孩子似的.

辞典例句

He lived five months, and became as tame and docile as a cat.
他生活了五个月, 慢慢变得像小猫一样温顺听话.

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The docile masses of an enslaved nation.
被奴役民族温顺的群众.

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He trembled lest he himself should lose a docile pupil.
他担心自己会失去一个听话的学生.

辞典例句

Christianity and slavery. The docile slave as good Christian.
基督教与奴隶制. 身为好基督徒的温顺奴隶.

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Are your boys usually so docile?
你的孩子通常都那么乖,那么听话 吗 ?

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The game introduce: The damned wolf attackstones again docile of piggy, beat it to fly quickly!
游戏介绍: 可恶的狼又来攻击善良的小猪了, 快点来把它打飞!

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The house faces a docile body of water.
这幢房子面朝一泓平静的湖水.

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Little girls epitomise a patriarchal society's ideal of compliant, docile sexuality.
小女孩体现了父权社会对女性提出的顺从而且性温顺的理想标准.

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