gentle

adj. 温和的；文雅的

vt. 使温和，使驯服

n. 蛆，饵

n. (Gentle)人名；(英)金特尔

adj.

温和的；文雅的；高尚的；

vt.

使温和；使驯服；

n.

蛆；饵；

变形

过去式：gentled过去分词：gentled现在分词：gentling第三人称单数：gentles

双语释义

温和的,和蔼的,有礼貌的 kind and ready to help others; polite

轻的,柔和的; 和缓的 not violent; soft in movement

高尚的; 上层阶级的 of the nobility; born into a high social class

英英释义

gentle[ 'dʒentl ]

v.

cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

同义词：pacifylenifyconciliateassuageappeasemollifyplacategruntle

give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility

同义词：ennobleentitle

stroke soothingly

adj.

soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe

"a gentle reprimand"; "a vein of gentle irony"; "poked gentle fun at him"

同义词：soft

having or showing a kindly or tender nature

"the gentle touch of her hand"; "her gentle manner was comforting"; "a gentle sensitive nature"; "gentle blue eyes"

quiet and soothing

"a gentle voice"; "a gentle nocturne"

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

"of gentle blood"

同义词：aristocraticaristocraticalblueblue-bloodedpatrician

easily handled or managed

"a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"

同义词：docile

having little impact

"gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"

同义词：easysoft

marked by moderate steepness

"a gentle slope"

同义词：easy

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

gentle dog温顺的狗

gentle heart仁慈的心肠

gentle nature温和的性情

gentle smile温柔的微笑

gentle spirit温和的性情

gentle wind和风

～+介词

gentle in manner举止文雅

gentle in voice声调温柔

gentle to sb对某人和蔼

gentle with与…和善(相处)的

词组短语

gentle breeze微风；[气象]蒲福三级风

gentle slope缓坡；平缓坡度；平缓倾斜

gentle and soft温柔

gentle and quiet文静的；轻柔的；娴雅文静

gentle and simple贵贱

gentle dip缓倾斜；平倾斜

gentle rain柔和的雨，温柔的雨

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“温和的，柔和的”的意思，其区别是：

gentle指温柔、亲切、优雅。常含有节制和意味。

moderate中性词，指温和稳健，有节制，不走极端。

tender和gentle意思很接近。指人的感情细腻、温情慈爱和有同情心，侧重心理素质。也可指物的柔嫩等。

mild用于人时，指天性温顺，脾气好，不放肆粗野；用于物时，主要指适度，程度上相当缓和给人以愉快感觉。

soft侧重柔软或安稳、光滑，使人不感到粗糙或严酷。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

We've never met such gentle people.
我们从来没有遇到这样温和的人。

My mother is a kind and gentle woman.
我的母亲是一位心地善良、性情温和的妇女。

The gentle music can relax him.
轻柔的音乐能使他放松。

A gentle breeze stirred the leaves.
微风吹动了树叶。

The dog is so gentle that I am not afraid of it.
这只狗如此温顺,因此我不感到害怕。

She is gentle like a lamb.
她像只小羊羔一样温顺。

My new teacher is a very gentle person.
我的新老师是一个温文尔雅的人。

He is a man gentle in manner but firm in action.
他是一个举止文雅但行动坚决的人。

He was a person of gentle blood.
他出身名门。

权威例句

gentle

gentle: [13] Expressions like ‘of gentle birth’, and related forms such as gentility [14] and gentleman [13] point up the original link between gentle and ‘family, stock, birth’. The word comes via Old French gentil from Latin gentīlis, a derivative of gēns ‘family, stock’, which in turn goes back to the Indo-European base *gen- ‘produce’ (source of English gene, generate, genitive, etc).To begin with it meant ‘of the same family’, but by post-classical times it had shifted to ‘of good family’, the sense in which English originally acquired it. Like the closely related generous, it then moved on semantically from ‘well-born’ to ‘having a noble character, generous, courteous’, but interestingly this sense has virtually died out in English (except in such fixed phrases as gentle knight and gentle reader), having been replaced since the 16th century by ‘mild, tender’.French gentil was reborrowed into English in the 16th century as genteel, in which again connotations of good breeding figure highly. Attempts at a French accent resulted ultimately in jaunty [17], which originally meant ‘wellbred’ or ‘elegant’. The other English descendant of Latin gentīlis is the directly borrowed gentile [14], whose application to ‘non-Jewish people’ comes from its use in the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Bible.=> general

gentle (adj.)

early 13c., gentile, gentle "well-born, of noble rank or family," from Old French gentil/jentil "high-born, worthy, noble, of good family; courageous, valiant; fine, good, fair" (11c., in Modern French "nice, graceful, pleasing; fine, pretty") and directly from Latin gentilis "of the same family or clan," in Medieval Latin "of noble or good birth," from gens (genitive gentis) "race, clan," from root of gignere "beget," from PIE root *gene- "to give birth, beget" (see genus). Sense evolved in English and French to "having the character or manners of one of noble rank or birth," varying according to how those were defined. From mid-13c. in English as "gracious, kind" (now obsolete), manners prescribed for Christian or chivalrous nobility. From late 13c. as "courteous, polite, well-bred, charming;" c. 1300 as "graceful, beautiful." Meaning "mild, tender; easy; not harsh" (of animals, things, persons) is from 1550s. Older sense remains in gentleman, and compare gentile (adj.), an alternative form which tends to keep the Biblical senses of the Latin word (though gentle in Middle English sometimes meant "pagan, heathen"), and genteel, which is the same word borrowed again from French. From 1823 as "pertaining to the fairies."

1. Jane is of such a gentle nature.

简的性格十分温柔。

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2. Nothing can ruffle her gentle disposition.

她的温和性格使她遇到任何事情都不会恼火。

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3. The long cruel winter came to an end at last, yielding to a gentle warm.

漫长的严冬终于接近尾声，被柔和温暖的气候所取代。

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4. Be firm, but gentle; and teach your child as you go along.

但是，请温和的坚持下去，并教会你的孩子与你一同前进。

5. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

你们作仆人的，凡事要存敬畏的心顺服主人。不但顺服那善良温和的，就是那乖僻的也要顺服。

6. On my last holiday in the Bahamas, as I walked along the beach feeling the gentle waves wash over my feet, I felt part of the universe, even if only a minuscule one, like a grain of sand on the beach.

在巴哈马最后一次度假的时候，当我沿着海滩散步的时候，温柔的海水拂过我的脚时，我感觉到我与宇宙融为了一体。尽管只是如海滩上的一粒沙子那样渺小的一部分。

7. I choose to be gentle.

我选择温和的作风。

8. Am I inside or on a veranda with a gentle breeze?

我是在房间里，还是在吹着柔和的微风的走廊上？

9. Though I cannot say I made a gentle nurse, and Joseph and the master were no better; and though our patient was as wearisome and headstrong as a patient could be, she weathered it through.

虽然我不能说我是一个温柔的看护，可是约瑟夫和主人总不见得比我好。而且虽然我们的病人是病人中最麻烦、最任性的——可是她总算起死回生了。

10. You want to be able to provide them with some general, gentle guidance.

你要做的就是给予他们一些大体温和的引导。

11. When you are relaxed, your breathing tends to be slow and gentle.

当你在放松的时候，你的呼吸往往是柔和、缓慢。

12. I like his gentle and mild voice.

我喜欢他那温和而轻柔的声音。

13. Keep the volume low and only listen to quiet and gentle music at this time of night.

把音量调低，在这样的夜晚，就只听那些安静且温和的音乐。

14. Start the day with a cup of fresh water with lemon for a gentle cleanse.

喝一杯新鲜的柠檬水，给身体来一次温和的清洁，开始新的一天。

15. But add some meat or other protein to the bread and the glucose absorption rate becomes a gentle curve.

但在面包里加点肉或者其它蛋白质食物，葡萄糖吸收率则呈现出一个温和的曲线。

16. "It scares me that if a man can do something like that – one who I know is gentle, and has been a good man throughout my whole life – am I capable of that?" he says.

亨利说：“我被吓住了，如果一个人能做出这样的事，而且这个人是我熟悉的人，一个温柔的人，一个在我整个生活中一直是个善良的人；那么是否我也能做出这样的事？

17. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

幸福，事实上就是男人听到许多温柔的声音叫他“爸爸”。

18. If there are gentle, subtle social messages that wearing a condom is acceptable - that it is normal - then I think, over time, we can all overcome the hurdle of unprotected sex.

如果有温和、微妙的社会信息说戴避孕套是可以接受的，那很正常，我认为随着时间的过去，我们可以克服所有的未被保护的性爱。

19. So be as gentle with yourself as you would a friend who just ended a primary relationship.

所以对自己温柔一些，就像你对待一个刚刚结束了一段重要关系的朋友一样。

20. During that period I had gentle intercourse with my partner.

在这段时间里，我和我的伙伴进行了温和的性交。

21. Over and over in my mind, I see her face, her kind eyes, I hear her gentle words, I taste those apples.

在我的脑海中,我一次又一次地看到她的面容,她那双善良的眼睛,听到她温柔的话语,品尝那些苹果。

22. I wanted to hurry and ride her, but I remembered what Keno Carter said about being slow and gentle.

我想要催促而且骑她，但是我记得基诺卡特有关慢的和温和说的.

23. A Chinese woman wants to reinforce her understated, gentle femininity as well as her desire to move forward and stand up.

一个中国女人既想强调她朴实温柔的女人味，也想强调其对于向前进和站起来的欲望。

24. A Chinese woman wants to reinforce her understated, gentle femininity as well as her desire to move forward and stand up.

一个中国女人既想强调她朴实温柔的女人味，也想强调其对于向前进和站起来的欲望。

25. From the implementation model—necessarily the programmer’s point of view—such gentle, innocent probing represents a continuous series of “mistakes.”

从实现模型看——程序员必然的看法——这种温和而没有恶意的探索代表着一系列的“错误”。

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26. Mothers are gentle with their babies.

母亲对婴儿总是温柔体贴的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

27. Designers who choose to label their icons are trying to satisfy two groups of users with different needs: One wants to learn in a gentle, forgiving environment; the other knows where the sharp edges are but sometimes needs a brief reminder.

这些设计师试图满足两类用户的不同目标，一组希望在温和宽松的环境下学习；另一组知道清晰的边界，但有时需要简短的提示。

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28. Flow often induces a “gentle sense of euphoria” and can make you unaware of the passage of time.

流通常包括一种温和的沉醉感并能让你对时间的流逝毫无察觉。

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29. His writings are marked by a gentle humor.

他的作品的特点是有点幽默。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

30. Folds may be gentle and symmetrical, or sharp and asymmetrical.

褶皱可以是平缓而对称的，也可以是陡峭而非对称的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

31. She has a gentle heart.

她有一颗善良（或温柔）的心。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

32. a gentle [rapid] ascent

缓 [陡] 坡

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

33. A little gentle prodding may be necessary at this stage.

在这一阶段或有必要稍微督促一下.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

34. Many popular ski resorts have a gentle slope for learning and a few expert runs to really challenge the serious skier.

好的滑雪胜地都有适合学习的平缓坡道，以及能够对真正的滑雪者构成挑战的专家级滑道。

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