docile

/dos-uhl; British doh-sahyl/US // ˈdɒs əl; British ˈdoʊ saɪl //UK // (ˈdəʊsaɪl) //

温顺的,驯服的,驯服,驯顺的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
- : readily trained or taught; teachable.

adj.compliant, submissive

Synonyms

The harder she looks, the more she sees beneath the “docile surface” of the streets.
Sometimes large dogs need a heavy-duty crate even though their personality is docile.
She is the docile Earth-mother who generously balances and protects the environment and all its inhabitants.
They note that the bowheads, which had initially been docile, started using the sea ice to avoid harpoons.
She also features a more natural face than the one of docile serenity so often bestowed on the Queen of Heaven.
For the first few years, the public was fairly docile in response to the school wars.
The middle classes,” Satyarthi once told the BBC, want “cheap, docile labour.
The tabloids demand that Kate Middleton be as docile as Jane Seymour, whose personal motto was “Bound to obey and serve.”
Spivack, meanwhile, continues to promise her American clients docile, submissive partners.
It is the young animals of these species which are the most social and docile and most approach man in appearance.
It consisted in subjecting some of the docile herbivora more fully to human mastership.
She tried to turn a face toward old Kano; but the deepening glory of her husband's look drew her as light draws a flower.

/dos-uhl; British doh-sahyl/US // ˈdɒs əl; British ˈdoʊ saɪl //UK // (ˈdəʊsaɪl) //

温顺的,驯服的,驯服,驯顺的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
- : readily trained or taught; teachable.

adj.compliant, submissive

Synonyms

The harder she looks, the more she sees beneath the “docile surface” of the streets.
Sometimes large dogs need a heavy-duty crate even though their personality is docile.
She is the docile Earth-mother who generously balances and protects the environment and all its inhabitants.
They note that the bowheads, which had initially been docile, started using the sea ice to avoid harpoons.
She also features a more natural face than the one of docile serenity so often bestowed on the Queen of Heaven.
For the first few years, the public was fairly docile in response to the school wars.
The middle classes,” Satyarthi once told the BBC, want “cheap, docile labour.
The tabloids demand that Kate Middleton be as docile as Jane Seymour, whose personal motto was “Bound to obey and serve.”
Spivack, meanwhile, continues to promise her American clients docile, submissive partners.
It is the young animals of these species which are the most social and docile and most approach man in appearance.
It consisted in subjecting some of the docile herbivora more fully to human mastership.
She tried to turn a face toward old Kano; but the deepening glory of her husband's look drew her as light draws a flower.