pliant

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpliantpli‧ant /ˈplaɪənt/ adjective 1 soft and moving easily in the way that you want Isabel was pliant in his arms. her pliant lips2 BENDeasily influenced and controlled by other people Pliant judges have been a problem in the past. —pliantly adverb —pliancy noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpuspliant• Their skin feels like day-after-death skin, cold and hard though still faintly pliant.• The joints of his limbs were so pliant and flexible that he seemed much more like one asleep than dead.• Women were the first, the most expendable, the most pliant, and the easiest victims.• She sat rigidly, shaking, incapable of anything other than being there, pliant in his hands.• Limbs pliant, reason suspended, she lay in a universe where nothing mattered except that he should not stop.• You feel the grit in the clay, the slick surface of the glass, the pliant rubber.• Mr Gorbachev has three instruments that, he hopes, will make the press more pliant while falling short of complete censorship.Origin pliant (1300-1400) Old French present participle of plier; → PLIERS

单词	pliant
释义	pliant From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpliantpli‧ant /ˈplaɪənt/ adjective 1 soft and moving easily in the way that you want Isabel was pliant in his arms. her pliant lips2 BENDeasily influenced and controlled by other people Pliant judges have been a problem in the past. —pliantly adverb —pliancy noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpuspliant• Their skin feels like day-after-death skin, cold and hard though still faintly pliant.• The joints of his limbs were so pliant and flexible that he seemed much more like one asleep than dead.• Women were the first, the most expendable, the most pliant, and the easiest victims.• She sat rigidly, shaking, incapable of anything other than being there, pliant in his hands.• Limbs pliant, reason suspended, she lay in a universe where nothing mattered except that he should not stop.• You feel the grit in the clay, the slick surface of the glass, the pliant rubber.• Mr Gorbachev has three instruments that, he hopes, will make the press more pliant while falling short of complete censorship.Origin pliant (1300-1400) Old French present participle of plier; → PLIERS
随便看	in the centre (of something) in the centre of in the clear in the club in the cold light of day in the context of in the context of something in the corner in the corner (of something) in the corner of in the correct order in the corridor in the country in the countryside in the course of in the course of doing in the course of doing something in the course of time in the curriculum in the dark in the dark in the daytime in the desert in the dim and distant past in the direction of