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单词 pliantly
释义
pliantpli‧ant /ˈplaɪənt/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpliant
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French present participle of plier; PLIERS
Examples
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  • Limbs pliant, reason suspended, she lay in a universe where nothing mattered except that he should not stop.
  • Mr Gorbachev has three instruments that, he hopes, will make the press more pliant while falling short of complete censorship.
  • She sat rigidly, shaking, incapable of anything other than being there, pliant in his hands.
  • The joints of his limbs were so pliant and flexible that he seemed much more like one asleep than dead.
  • Their skin feels like day-after-death skin, cold and hard though still faintly pliant.
  • Women were the first, the most expendable, the most pliant, and the easiest victims.
  • You feel the grit in the clay, the slick surface of the glass, the pliant rubber.
1soft and moving easily in the way that you want:  Isabel was pliant in his arms. her pliant lips2easily influenced and controlled by other people:  Pliant judges have been a problem in the past.pliantly adverbpliancy noun [uncountable]
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