Indulgent
[ɪn'dʌldʒ(ə)nt] or [ɪn'dʌldʒənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) being favorably inclined; 'an indulgent attitude' .
(adj.) characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; 'indulgent grandparents' .
(adj.) tolerant or lenient; 'indulgent parents risk spoiling their children'; 'too soft on the children'; 'they are soft on crime' .
整理:理查德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent.
校對:佩德罗
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Yielding, compliant.[2]. Lenient, mild, clement, tolerant, gentle, forbearing, kind, tender, not severe.
埃文編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Compliant, forbearing, tender, tolerant
ANT:Harsh, severe, rough,[See SUBMISSIVE]
錄入:维维恩
例句/造句/用法:
- He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- My parents were indulgent, and my companions amiable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Those merchants and manufacturers enjoy a sort of monopoly in the country which is so indulgent to them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Your sweetheart--Fortune, I mean--was perfectly indulgent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- But she assured me she would never marry an idle self-indulgent man--nothing since. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Improvident and self-indulgent were his words. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Women who are worthy the name ought infinitely to surpass; our coarsefallible, self-indulgent sex, in the power to perform such duties. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- France, however, is certainly the great empire in Europe, which, after that of Great Britain, enjoys the mildest and most indulgent government. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- From you, her mother, and so kind, so indulgent a mother, the question could not give offence. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- She had lost her indulgent parents, her brothers and sisters, companions of her youth; in one fell swoop they had been carried off from her. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- And with a relenting smile, he added, I come home to be happy and indulgent. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Indulgent Mr. Godfrey pacified her by taking a sheet of paper, and drawing out the declaration. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She had her own reasons for being less sanguine than ever in hopeful views of the future, less indulgent to pleasurable retrospections of the past. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I don't know if you've heard-- Mrs. Archer produced an indulgent smile. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I shall never marry again, said Dorothea, touching her sister's chin, and looking at her with indulgent affection. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Mr. Gale had been a churchwarden, and was indulgent to the clergy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- So I sought out a school conducted on a more indulgent system, and near enough to permit of my visiting her often, and bringing her home sometimes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- To her she was most injudiciously indulgent. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- No; you are most generously considerate, indeed, most tenderly indulgent to her; and you will be considerate with mamma. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I supposed he regarded my silence as eccentricbut he was indulgent in refraining from censure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I hope it is not self-indulgent to shed these tears as I think of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The people we called weak-willed or self-indulgent always deceive themselves as to the consequences of their acts. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- His lordship gave me an indulgent look and acknowledged my curtsy very graciously. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He believed he was an indulgent father (as indeed he was), and I might spare myself any solicitude on her account. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
錄入:维维恩