lenient
lenient 英 [ˈli:niənt] 美 [ˈliniənt, ˈlinjənt]
adj. 宽大的；仁慈的
- If you're not overly strict, and you show tolerance and mercy when someone does something wrong, you're being lenient.
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- adj. 宽大的；仁慈的
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1. The judge was lenient with the wrongdoer.
法官对这个犯人很宽大。
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2. And I must say, Mum was pretty darned lenient defining those two categories. Maybe she just hoped that the lesson would rub off eventually.
然而我必须说，母亲是如此优雅有理，仁慈的定义这那两款类型。也许她仅仅是希望教训会最终抹掉。
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3. Germany had to ask, humiliatingly, for lenient implementation of the Stability Pact it had insisted upon, and the European Union agreed.
德国只能低声下气地乞求他曾一再坚持的《稳定公约》能够对其宽大处理，而欧盟同意了。
- lenient (adj.) 1650s, "relaxing, soothing" (a sense now archaic), from Middle French lenient, from Latin lenientem (nominative leniens), present participle of lenire "to soften, alleviate, allay; calm, soothe, pacify," from lenis "mild, gentle, calm," which probably is from a suffixed form of PIE root *lē- "to let go, slacken."
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