docile
英 [ˈdəʊ.saɪl]
美 [ˈdɑː.səl]
将“docile”分解为“doc”和“ile”。想象一位医生(doctor的缩写doc)对待一位非常顺从、容易管理的病人(ile代表容易的结尾)。这样,通过联想到医生与顺从病人之间的关系,可以记住“docile”意为温顺的或易于管理的。
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docile 驯服的来自词根doc, 教,教导,词源同doctor.引申词义可教导的,可驯服的。
- docile (adj.)
- late 15c., "easily taught," from Italian or French docile, from Latin docilis "easily taught," from docere "teach" (see doctor). Sense of "obedient, submissive" first recorded 1774.
- 1. Circus monkeys are trained to be very docile and obedient.
- 马戏团的猴子训练得服服贴贴的.
- 2. " You're all so docile. You don't put up the slightest resistance.
- “ 你们总是忍受, 你们一点也不反抗.
- 3. They wanted a low-cost, docile workforce.
- 他们想要廉价的、听话的劳动力。
- 4. Why don't you become a nice, docile Christian?
- 我想你还不如规规矩矩地去做一个基督徒.
- 5. The soldiers were grateful and docile, made almost childlike by their wounds.
- 士兵们都很感激,很听话, 因为受伤,都变得象孩子似的.