Docile
['dəʊsaɪl]
解释:
(adj.) willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; 'the docile masses of an enslaved nation' .
(adj.) easily handled or managed; 'a gentle old horse, docile and obedient' .
(adj.) ready and willing to be taught; 'docile pupils eager for instruction'; 'teachable youngsters' .
弗朗辛校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
(a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
克劳德特录入
同义词及近义词：
a. Teachable, docile, docible, tractable, apt, easily taught.
克莱德编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Compliant, amenable, easily_managed, yielding, gentle, quiet, pliant,tractable, teachable, tame
ANT:Intractable, stubborn, obstinate, self-willed, dogged
编辑:谢恩
解释:
adj. teachable: ready to learn: easily managed—(obs.) Doc′ible.—ns. Doc′ibleness Docil′ity teachableness.—adj. Dō′cious (U.S.).—n. Doc′ity.
编辑:朱利叶斯
例句:
- The twelve strokes sounded, she grew docile, and would meekly lie down. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Certainly; she is fonder of geraniums, and seems more docile, though not so fine a figure. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- She promised to commit no extravagance, to be docile, and immediately to return. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- You always were my docile daughter. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Mamma had a little filial lecture afterwards, and was docile as usual. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- She did not again yield to any effervescence of glee; the infantine sparkle was exhaled for the night: she was soft, thoughtful, and docile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The change of scene operated to a great degree as I expected; after a year's absence, Perdita returned in gentler and more docile mood to Windsor. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She said, with her natural, docile, gentle manner, Come, Shirley, we will go home now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She was docile and good tempered, yet gay and playful as a summer insect. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Justine Marie is a good girl, said he, docile and amiable; not quick--but you will like her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Amy is more docile, will make a good companion for Flo, and receive gratefully any help the trip may give her. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Immediately, said Shirley, with docile promptitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- With Mrs. Bretton she was docile and reliant, but not expansive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- If any concessions were to be made--if any advances were demanded--that was the affair of the very docile pupil of Père Silas, not mine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- So long as the poor are docile in their poverty, the rest of us are only too willing to satisfy our consciences by pitying them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- What a docile wife you would make to a stern husband! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Well might we like him, with all his passions and hurricanes, when he could be so benignant and docile at times, as he was just now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Generally she was quiet and timid with him--very docile, but not communicative; this morning, however, she found many things to say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I seized this docile moment to propose our departure from the church. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He goes briskly, he puts on no airs, he is docile, though opinionated. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Moore, for her part, delighted in the task, because it gave her importance; she liked to lord it a little over a docile yet quick pupil. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
编辑:朱利叶斯