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单词 mild-mannered
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Definition of mild-mannered in English:

mild-mannered

adjective
  • (of a person) gentle and not given to extremes of emotion.

    karate was introduced into Japan by a mild-mannered Okinawan schoolmaster
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A mild-mannered man is wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to anger-management treatment.
    • Jacob does not know how to react to this headstrong woman who is nothing like the mild-mannered wife he had loved.
    • He was mild-mannered and polite, attempting light humour to put me at my ease.
    • Presently, Larry is working as a mild-mannered library clerk at a community college in Kingston, Ontario.
    • He sounds like a slightly demented five-year-old child, while at the same time looking like anybody's mild-mannered uncle.
    • And he is on BBC2 in the evenings now, asking his aggressive questions at mild-mannered members of the public.
    • He is too mild-mannered to be a manager; too nice to be nasty.
    • This sent my normally mild-mannered father, who was eating dinner at the time, into a rage.
    • Softness and that curiously mild-mannered touch dominated Lang Lang's playing.
    • One of the most mild-mannered people I know is driven into a frenzy by the fact that there is a caravan parked in a drive just up the road from her.
    • Two policemen are filming and photographing the apparently mild-mannered women holding the poster.
    • These are startling things to hear from such a quiet, decent, mild-mannered man.
    • He was a kind, mild-mannered man who did not like the trials of leadership or the political intrigues of court.
    • He's normally mild-mannered, easy-going and a joy to work for.
    • But this time it was not the defence secretary who spoke but the normally mild-mannered secretary of state.
    • Off the field he is a quietly spoken, mild-mannered person; on the field, he's different.
    • After returning, we've reverted back to our normal roles as mild-mannered students.
    • Superman may save the world on a regular basis, but he gets to come home and be mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent.
    • Even the mild-mannered people out in the provinces are now saying that there will be civil disobedience.
    • My mom was mild-mannered compared to that, which was really saying something.
 
 

Definition of mild-mannered in US English:

mild-mannered

adjectiveˈmaɪld ˌmænərdˈmīld ˌmanərd
  • (of a person) gentle and not given to extremes of emotion.

    karate was introduced into Japan by a mild-mannered Okinawan schoolmaster
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Jacob does not know how to react to this headstrong woman who is nothing like the mild-mannered wife he had loved.
    • After returning, we've reverted back to our normal roles as mild-mannered students.
    • But this time it was not the defence secretary who spoke but the normally mild-mannered secretary of state.
    • Off the field he is a quietly spoken, mild-mannered person; on the field, he's different.
    • He's normally mild-mannered, easy-going and a joy to work for.
    • And he is on BBC2 in the evenings now, asking his aggressive questions at mild-mannered members of the public.
    • One of the most mild-mannered people I know is driven into a frenzy by the fact that there is a caravan parked in a drive just up the road from her.
    • Even the mild-mannered people out in the provinces are now saying that there will be civil disobedience.
    • Presently, Larry is working as a mild-mannered library clerk at a community college in Kingston, Ontario.
    • A mild-mannered man is wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to anger-management treatment.
    • Softness and that curiously mild-mannered touch dominated Lang Lang's playing.
    • He was a kind, mild-mannered man who did not like the trials of leadership or the political intrigues of court.
    • This sent my normally mild-mannered father, who was eating dinner at the time, into a rage.
    • Two policemen are filming and photographing the apparently mild-mannered women holding the poster.
    • He sounds like a slightly demented five-year-old child, while at the same time looking like anybody's mild-mannered uncle.
    • These are startling things to hear from such a quiet, decent, mild-mannered man.
    • Superman may save the world on a regular basis, but he gets to come home and be mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent.
    • My mom was mild-mannered compared to that, which was really saying something.
    • He was mild-mannered and polite, attempting light humour to put me at my ease.
    • He is too mild-mannered to be a manager; too nice to be nasty.
 
 
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