docile
docile 英 [ˈdəʊsaɪl] 美 [ˈdɑsl]
adj. 温顺的，驯服的；容易教的
名词复数:dociles
- If someone is docile, he is easily taught or handled. If you suddenly became a trouble-maker in class, your teachers would long for the days when you were sweet and docile.
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- adj. 温顺的，驯服的；容易教的
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1. Their docile banking systems, high saving rates and hoards of foreign exchange shielded them from the worst of the financial chaos.
它们温顺的银行体系，高储蓄率与囤积的外汇储备构成了抵挡金融海啸最猛烈一击的盾牌。
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2. Huge, docile whale sharks live in oceans around the world, but no one knows where they breed, their migration routes, or even how many there are.
巨大、温顺的鲸鲨生活在世界各处的海洋里，然而没有人知道它们在那里繁殖、它们的迁移路径，甚至还不知道它们究竟有多少。
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3. The strikes, stoppages and suicides that have afflicted foreign factories on China’s coast in recent months have shaken the popular image of the country’s workers as docile, diligent and dirt cheap.
最近几个月，抗议，罢工以及自杀这一系列发生在中国沿海外资工厂中的事件，已经动摇了这个国家工人们一贯受人欢迎的形象：就是温顺，勤奋以及廉价。
- docile (adj.) late 15c., "easily taught," from Italian or French docile, from Latin docilis "easily taught," from docere "to show, teach, cause to know," originally "make to appear right," causative of decere "be seemly, fitting," from PIE root *dek- "to take, accept." Sense of "obedient, submissive" first recorded 1774.
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