mild-mannered adj.
温和的,温柔的
mild-mannered[ adj ]
behaving in or having a mild or gentle manner
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- "We need to keep on promoting socialism." Mr. Cronin, a mild-mannered white poet, burrowed into the SACP underground during his university days.
- Now, a task force has been appointed to study the issue. One dog advocate has offered to help by having her dog interview potential dog riders to determine which are mild-mannered enough to be allowed on buses.
- On the other side is Mr Lee's son, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, who has made no secret of his willingness to serve as prime minister. When he came to office, the mild-mannered Mr Goh promised a more open, consultative form of government.
- As the House conducted a generally mild-mannered debate on the 375-page bill Wednesday, policemen-turned-lobbyists roamed through lawmakers' offices to present their views on a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchasers.
- The votes counted show a hefty margin for a mild-mannered coffee grower named Alfredo Cristiani, a member of the right-wing Republican National Alliance (Arena).
- Witnesses testified he was a mild-mannered, deeply pious and strictly raised Lutheran born in a hard-working German immigrant community in Bay City, Mich. He was a history buff deeply involved in his church who loved to play war games.
- In all that time, she's never guessed that the Man of Steel and her mild-mannered fellow reporter are the same guy.
- Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the mild-mannered poet and painter who engineered the fall of the modern world's oldest political dynasty, was born to be king.
- Mr. Zhuchkov, 40, is a mild-mannered engineer and one of the leaders of the democratic movement in this military industrial city 100 miles to the south of Moscow, with a regional population of two million.