When John spoke in that masterful tone, Meg always obeyed, and never regretted her docility.

当约翰用那种专横语气说话时，梅格总是服，而且不后悔自己。

He listened to me with docility, or rather with eagerness.

他温地，或者更确切地说， 热切地听我说话。

He walked by her side with docility and listened, not without deference, to her outbursts.

他温地走在身边， 不无尊重地听着爆发。

She met that criticism as her temperament dictated, with docility and diffidence, or with anger and emphasis.

以温和羞怯，或以愤怒和强调态度面对这种批评，因为气质决定了这一点。

They are selectively bred, not least for docility, and share some cattle genes after crossbreeding that happened a bit over 100 years ago.

人类对野牛进行选择性繁殖，主要是为了培育温性，并且在100多年前发生杂交后，野牛也拥有着一些家牛基因。

I never knew a weak or ignorant person who had a good temper, though that constitutional good humour, and that docility, which fear stamps on the behaviour, often obtains the name.

我来没有见过一软或无知人有好脾气，尽管那种天生好脾气，以及那种因恐惧而加在行为上温，常常得名。

Amy was a model of docility, and as her aunt was a good deal occupied with Flo, she was left to entertain her friend, and did it with more than her usual success.

艾米是温典范，由于姨妈忙于照顾弗洛，只好去招待朋友，而且比平时更成功。

The strength of the mastiff is not in the least supported either by the swiftness of the greyhound, or by the sagacity of the spaniel, or by the docility of the shepherd's dog.

獒犬力量丝毫没有得到灵缇犬敏捷、西班牙猎犬机智或牧羊犬温支持。

Persons who are stubbornly contentious or disputatious, who argue for the sake of argument, not for the sake of learning, as well as persons who are too submissive or acquiescent and do not exercise their minds critically, lack docility.

固执好争辩，为争辩而不为学问，或过于或默许，不批判地运用心智人，都是缺乏人。

Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy.

在这基础上，温柔、温和像猎犬一样感情一直被推荐为性别主要美德；而且，一位作家无视自然任意经济，宣称女人忧郁是阳刚之气。