Meekness
['mi:knis]
解释:
(noun.) a disposition to be patient and long suffering.
(noun.) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness.
安托万整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being meek.
弗兰克编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. Humbleness, humility, lowliness, lowness, demureness, condescension, self-abasement, gentleness, modesty, submission, submissiveness, mildness.
珍妮特编辑
娱乐性解释：
n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
整理:马文
例句:
- The Count, with truly Christian meekness of temper, smiled and left the room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I am pretty well, I thank you, answered Mr. Lorry, with meekness; how are you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Lydgate was bowing his neck under the yoke like a creature who had talons, but who had Reason too, which often reduces us to meekness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Mr. Snagsby, with his cough of meekness, rejoins, Wouldn't you really, my dear? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He tends to meekness and obesity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- She was angered quickly, but she forgave just as readily, and underneath her pride there was the meekness of a child. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Bishop said he was glad to think that this wealth flowed into the coffers of a gentleman who accepted it with meekness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- This mound of meekness, this lump of love, this bottle-green smiler, this is your driver! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- As if he denied himself the pleasure of uttering it, lest he should soar too high; and his meekness therefore preferred to be unmeaning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- You would oblige me greatly by doing so, Dorothea, said Mr. Casaubon, with a shade more meekness than usual in his polite manner. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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