Lenient
['liːnɪənt] or ['linɪənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characterized by tolerance and mercy .
(adj.) not strict; 'an easy teacher'; 'easy standards'; 'lenient rules'; 'an easy penalty' .
卡洛琳手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
(a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
(n.) A lenitive; an emollient.
校對:塞尔玛
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Softening, assuasive, soothing, mitigating, mitigative, lenitive.[2]. Mild, gentle, clement, merciful, tender, forbearing, long-suffering, not rigorous, not severe.
校對:米里亚姆
同義詞及反義詞：
[See MILD_and_KIND]
克林顿編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. softening: mild: merciful.—n. (med.) that which softens: an emollient.—ns. Lē′nience Lē′niency.—adv. Lē′niently.—v.t. Lē′nify (rare) to assuage.—adj. Len′itive mitigating: laxative.—n. any palliative: (med.) an application for easing pain: a mild purgative.—n. Len′ity mildness: clemency.
手打:特雷弗
例句/造句/用法:
- If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here who may be more successful. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He asked his partner to explain the invention to him; 'having a lenient consideration,' he stipulated, 'for my being no workman, Doyce. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Polly and I were clinging to that hypothesis as the most lenient way of accounting for your eccentricity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not by. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- As a result he soon gained the farmers’ confidence, and his name became identified with square, and even with lenient, dealing with all classes of purchasers. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Now, said Holmes, when the rejoicing lackey had disappeared, having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient with the past. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
手打:特雷弗