docile是英語形容詞，意為“溫順的，馴服的；容易教的”，常用於描述人或動物性情溫和、易於管理的特點。其派生詞docility表示順從的特質。
該詞源自15世紀末的拉丁語docilis（容易教導），其原始印歐語根*dek-（接受，採納）派生出condign等多個辭彙。詞源解析中“doc-”源自拉丁語docere（教導），“-ile”為形容詞後綴，整體構成“容易教導的”含義。
初始語義為“容易教導”，1774年擴展出現代常用義“順從，易於管理”。該詞在雅思真題中被列為高頻辭彙，例句“Crowds generally become quiet and docile”印證其核心語義。
基本介紹
- 外文名：docile
- 詞性：形容詞
- 英式發音：[ˈdəʊsaɪl]
- 美式發音：[ˈdɑːsl]
- 釋義：溫順的，馴服的
單詞釋義,單詞用法,短語搭配,雙語例句,
單詞釋義
英 [ˈdəʊsaɪl] 美 [ˈdɑːs(ə)l]
adj. 馴服的，容易控制的，溫順的
單詞用法
柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典
docile /ˈdəʊsaɪl/ TEM8
1.ADJ A person or animal that is docile is quiet, not aggressive, and easily controlled. 易管教的
2.docility N-UNCOUNT [ADV with v]
短語搭配
TAME AND DOCILE 馴順
docile body 溫馴的身體 ; 馴服的身體 ; 馴服身體
DNA Docile 緹詩娜
docile bodies 馴服的身體 ; 順從的身體 ; 聽話的身體 ; 柔順的身體
lawyer's docile 律師卷宗
docile and obedient 百依百順 ; 帖服
be tame and docile 泛指順服
a docile wife 溫順的妻子
Sincerity Docile 真誠善良
雙語例句
- I suppose we could have concluded that she was just blindly loyal and docile. 我想我們可以得出這樣的結論，她只是盲目地忠誠和溫順。
- Spender concludes that, in mixed classes, if the girls are as boisterous and pushy as the boys, they are considered "unladylike", if they are docile and quiet, they are ignored. 斯彭德總結說，在男女混合的班級里，如果女孩像男孩一樣吵鬧、愛出風頭，就會被認為是“不淑女”；如果她們溫順、安靜，就會被人忽視。
- Circus monkeys are trained to be very docile and obedient. 馬戲團的猴子被訓練得服服貼貼的。
- Are your boys usually so docile? 你的孩子通常都那么乖，那么聽話嗎？
- Crowds generally become quiet and docile. 大眾通常變得沉默溫順。
- No, they will not be as docile as that. 不，他們不會那么容易聽話的。
- Docile, it accepts the reiterated suggestion. 馴服的公眾接受了這個一再被重申的啟事。
- He's very docile. 他很聽話的。
- Hes very docile. 他很聽話的。
- In some scenes, the animated objects are docile. 在有些場景中，這些有生命的物品很溫順。
- Dan is easy to each, but his brother is not so docile. 丹很容易教，但是他弟弟就不這么聽話了。
- The small white rabbit docile personality, unconfident. 小白兔性格溫順，膽子小。
- He looked all right – middle-aged, docile features, trustworthy. 他看上去不錯，中年，相貌老實可信。
- The figure was a woman. Tall, slender and quite docile it seemed. 是個女人，高挑、瘦弱，看起來很溫和。
- You tell me my docile my gentleness and my everything impress with you. 你告訴我我的善良我的溫柔和我的一切深深打動你。
- These horses were docile and strong, and could cover some 12 to 14 miles a day. 這種馬溫順而強壯，一天能跑12至14英里。
- The soldiers were grateful and docile, made almost childlike by their wounds. 士兵們都很感激，很聽話，因為受傷，都變得象孩子似的。
- China's youth is docile, for now. It will remain restrained as long as prices are. 目前，中國的年輕一代還是相當溫馴的，條件是物價上漲幅度控制在可接受範圍之內。
- In truth, Chinese workers were never as docile as the popular caricature suggested. 事實上，中國工人從來不像漫畫畫的那樣老實巴交。
- Such immersion is accompanied by mind-altering neurotoxins which keep the victim docile. 這種過程中，同時有能改變大腦的神經毒素使犧牲者更加聽話。
- Young lady always so, like to evoke additional people, but but afresh docile lovely pole. 小姐總是這樣，喜歡逗弄別人，但卻又善良可愛極了。
- Men like docile women. But if a man likes a woman, he will be docile to her unconsciously. 男人喜歡聽話的女人，但男人若是喜歡一個女人，就會不知不覺聽她的話。
- Without docile domestic buyers of JGBs to rely on, that would be more than just electoral hyperbole. 沒有溫順的國內日債買家可以依靠將不止是選舉的誇張。
- Your friends from home tell you you’ve changed and you’re convinced that envy’s poisoned their flabby, docile minds. 你家鄉的朋友都說你變了，而你卻始終堅信是嫉妒毒害了他們鬆弛溫順的頭腦。
- Eldest, docile, hideously obedient and reasonably smart girl child of the 50s and 60s, getting good grades was easy. 一個家中最大的、聽話、順從而且相當聰明的50到60年代的女孩，取得好成績是很容易的。
