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docile ['dɑsl.]

a. 容易教的, 温顺的

The house faces a docile body of water.
这幢房子面朝一泓平静的湖水。
No, they will not be as docile as that.
不，他们不会那么容易听话的。
Giant pandas have very docile temperaments.
大熊猫的性情很温顺。

docile

[ adj ]

willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

<adj.all>

the docile masses of an enslaved nation

ready and willing to be taught

<adj.all>

docile pupils eager for instruction

teachable youngsters

easily handled or managed

<adj.all>

a gentle old horse, docile and obedient

Docile \Doc"ile\, a. [L. docilis,fr. docere to teach; cf. Gr. ?,
and L. discere to learn, Gr. ? learned, ? knowing: cf. F.
docile. Cf. {Doctor}, {Didactic}, {Disciple}.]
1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. [Obs.]

2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a
docile child.

The elephant is at once docible and docile. -- C. J.
Smith.

The silver lining in the dark cloud will be that inflation remains docile, Mr. Berner says.
The Infas projections showed the Socialists with 47 percent of the vote, the opposition alliance with 36 percent and the mainstream Agrarian Party, once a docile Communist ally, with 8 percent.
Meehan said boa constrictors are very popular among amateur herpetologists because of their docile temperament and because they are increasingly difficult to obtain.
To the naked eye, Africanized bees are impossible to distinguish from the more docile European bees commonly raised in the Americas.
The Cabinet replaces one that resigned last week and included some members of the Agrarian Party, which had been a docile ally of the Communists for decades.
The country's first all-Communist government was sworn in Thursday after formerly docile allies and other opposition leaders ignored appeals to help run the country until elections in May.
In Fairfax, the growth and traffic "have whipped up a citizenry that was fairly docile," says Mr. Davis, the supervisor.
At least 80 percent of the deputies are Communist Party members, but a small band of reformers assured the congress will differ sharply from the docile, rubber-stamp assemblies of the past.
Instead, the critics say, employers are looking to the federally monitored foreign-worker program to provide them with a docile, relatively inexpensive work force.
Rifai, who resigned on Monday, nationalized Jordan's already docile newspapers during his four-year tenure.
But in Italy's docile banking market, it is unlikely that bankers will fail to toe the line. As matters stand, corporate borrowers in Italy are faced with an astonishing array of choice when it comes to picking a possible lender.
The president, whose civilian government has ruled since the nation became independent from France in 1960, has met unexpected opposition from the state-run General Union of Workers, a usually docile body.
Much of Monday's debate in the legislature was dominated by normally docile non-Communist deputies, who criticized the leadership for restricting their role.
Earlier this month, Mexico's traditionally docile labor unions threatened a general strike unless the government came through with a large pay increase to offset the impact of the peso devaluation.
The ruling party had to cheat brazenly to obtain that much; President Salinas entered office so unpopular he had to bus in docile peasants to line the route of his inauguration parade.
Feeling betrayed, feeling left alone for slaughter, the previously docile Moslems could really become what is called fundamentalist.' Majo Topolovac was born in Sarajevo.
Now those homelands, long ignored and usually docile, are turning on their creators.
Widely ignored and usually docile, South Africa's black homelands are producing a new generation of leaders frustrated with limited autonomy and demanding a bigger role in shaping the political future.
The ritual election by the customarily docile parliament was made dramatic when some members voted "no" for the first time.
The docile and quiet portrait of Farley contrasts markedly with the man police say tormented Black by following her, phoning her, joining her aerobics class and sending her more than 300 letters.

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