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adjectivegentler, gentlestˈdʒɛnt(ə)lˈdʒɛn(t)l 1Having or showing a mild, kind, or tender temperament or character. 他是个和蔼而又善解人意的人。 Example sentencesExamples - They were a dedicated group of nice, intelligent and gentle people, as opposed to the grizzly war-loving soldiers I expected.
- In person, she is gentle, candid and softly spoken.
- Ben has many qualities: he is gentle, fun and brave.
- Barbara was a very, very gentle person, but she was not bashful about expressing her point of view.
- A pleasant, good natured and gentle person, Una's caring qualities were always to the fore.
- Harmeet is the kindest, most compassionate, humble and gentle soul I have ever met.
- She was gentle and supportive, and these were qualities which carried over in to her work at the family centre.
- The minister, though gentle in character, is firm of purpose.
- In person he is gentle and friendly, and wouldn't think of putting you on, perhaps because Miller isn't yet accustomed to being interviewed.
- I respect her, she seems like a kind and gentle person.
- The beloved is portrayed as gentle, sensitive, tender and compassionate.
- Is this what gentle, tender young guys can expect from their future?
- Kind and gentle in his manner always, he spent his life caring for others and never thinking of self.
- Kind and gentle in his manner, John had a smile for everyone.
- May was a gentle person who retained a well balanced perspective on life throughout her long years.
- It still surprised her that a part of Arlan could be so gentle and tender, that he wasn't all the hard exterior he seemed to be.
- By nature, he was gentle and mild, but he now mustered up his courage to take a step that was necessary.
- They were gentle people who went quietly about their lives, always willing and glad to be able to lend a helping hand to neighbours and friends.
- I am amazed how gentle he is with the youngest child who is four.
- He is exposed as a complex character, gentle, understanding, patient and loving in private.
Synonyms kind, kindly, tender, benign, humane, lenient, merciful, forgiving, forbearing, sympathetic, considerate, understanding, clement, compassionate, benevolent, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, good-natured, sweet-tempered, loving mild, soft, quiet, shy, demure, modest, humble, retiring, unassuming, still, tranquil, peaceful, peaceable, pacific, placid, serene, reposeful, reverent, meek, docile, lamblike, dovelike 2Moderate in action, effect, or degree; not strong or violent. （动作、影响或程度）轻缓的；温和的；不厉害的 take some gentle exercise 和风。 Example sentencesExamples - The long grass ripple like the ocean waves under the surprisingly gentle sea breeze.
- His tone was gentle and solicitous, but Miguel didn't trust it.
- Birds called in the distance, and a gentle breeze was rustling the leaves.
- One more gentle squeeze on his arm, and Jim rose and left the room.
- A cleanser, astringent, gentle abrasive and mild bleaching agent, baking soda is a true all-purpose beauty aid.
- Just before I pass out, strong yet gentle arms pick me up.
- Yet the softness of the edges of the silhouettes and the equal softness of the charcoal surfaces produce a soothing, gentle effect.
- Acceptance is the tender and gentle process of opening our hearts to others, to ourselves, and to our common ground of suffering.
- You can also employ gentle persuasion and subtlety to excellent effect.
- He leaned towards her, pulled her close and gave her a gentle kiss.
- Slowly Nathan brought his head down, stealing her lips in a gentle kiss.
- He shrugged and gave the the same gentle smile as before and pulled me into a hug.
- Noncirculating air feels up to 9 degrees warmer than the gentle air circulation from a ceiling fan.
- They respond well to gentle stewing or simmering.
- He knew that he would always be very gentle with her.
- Cleansing routines should be consistently followed twice a day to include a mild soap, a gentle scrub and a deep pore cleanser.
- The lesson here for websites providing subscriptions is that if you must use ‘gentle reminders’ make sure they are actually gentle.
- But, remember to be very gentle, babies are quite fragile.
- His voice was so gentle, and yet so firm as well.
- But, with a surprisingly gentle touch, she brushes his hair away from his forehead.
Synonyms light, soft, zephyr-like, moderate, pleasant - 2.1 (of a slope) gradual.
（坡度）平缓的，不陡的 坡度平缓的堤坝。 Example sentencesExamples - Wandering down the gentle slope to the lake we put last week into perspective and start thinking next week will probably turn out reasonably OK.
- The first part of the hill was quite easy - a gentle slope that flattened off into a brief plateau.
- In the summer, they nest along stream bottoms and areas with gentle slopes.
- The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm.
- The new trail rounds the curve out more, and at the same time provides a slightly more gentle slope.
- These sediments accumulate to form the large, gentle slope of the continental rise.
- In areas where spring frosts threaten developing buds and flowers, plant where air drainage is adequate, such as midway down a gentle slope.
- One is that obviously you want to drive on fairly gentle slopes.
- The south slope is more gentle and ends in a marshy bay.
- Beside our chalet, for example, was a gentle slope that proved perfect for bum-boarding.
- This is an area long valued as well-drained farming land, being a gentle slope, and underneath limestone.
- Geologically, the Cotswolds were created from a large block of oolitic limestone tilting up at its western end to form today's escarpment, with a gentle slope tilting to the east.
- First, the lake's shallow swimming area was excavated, creating a gentle slope to a depth of four feet.
- You can pole across the main street to the start of a gentle slope that leads to the chairlifts, from which the whole, huge area is accessible.
- Mel was clambering down a gentle slope, loosening bits of rocks and soil, towards what he supposed was the Cobalt River.
- Close to the beginners meadow are gentle slopes, which become imperceptibly steeper, enabling you to improve without fear.
- Along the gentle slope of the mountains, the quarry stretched across an exposed cliff face.
- He had always been nervous during swimming lessons at our local pool, but the wave pool had a gentle slope and was shallow for more than half its length.
- The sea-floor has been described as extraordinary flat and exhibiting a very gentle slope towards the shore of an almost level land.
- They were doing it the easy way round - gentle slope followed by breakneck descent, but it was clearly regarded as a children-friendly route.
Synonyms gradual, slight, easy, imperceptible
3archaic (of a person) noble or having the qualities attributed to noble birth; courteous and chivalrous. 〈古〉品格高尚的；门第高的，出身高贵的；谦恭有礼的；仁心侠胆的 Example sentencesExamples - She could be described as a refined, gentle lady, with admirable intellectual qualities.
- My dinner guests were gentle people with refined sensibilities.
- Tennis is the game of the gentle people, the game so prim, so historical… so deranged.
Synonyms aristocratic, noble, titled, upper-class, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, patrician, elite
verbˈdʒɛnt(ə)lˈdʒɛn(t)l 1Make or become gentle. 使（或变）温柔；（使）平静；宽慰 no object Cobb's tone gentled a little 科布的语气缓和了一些。 Example sentencesExamples - The journey back wasn't half as bad as the one up and soon the harshness of the landscape was gentled with green.
- Thus, we noticed that the no-nonsense lines of the building have been gentled by a topiary maze in the foreground.
- It gentles our character as a whole, rendering us more patient and respectful toward others, more attentive to and interested in people's thoughts and feelings.
- We waited till after tea, when the fierce sun of the afternoon had gentled into a golden glow.
- ‘Sorry’ he said gentling his touch a bit when he heard her gasp.
- She gentled the kiss, kissing him back softly, slowly, until his rage had melted away.
- He grabbed the side of her face, and gentled the kiss, as if she were a fragile piece of glass.
- When the rain gentled, it was like softly flowing tears that seemed to be steaming in the half-light, falling on dimly glowing skin and turning to nothing more than morning mist.
- The sun laid the previous day to rest, and gentled the fears of the night.
- She was exhausted, her eyelids seemed to be made of lead, and her rump was sore from the long ride, gentled though it had been by the magic that masked their flight.
- The hands that held her upper arms gentled, though they did not relinquish their hold.
- Jesse gentled his grip but his eyes remained hard as they scanned over Joel's injuries.
- He rubbed her chest, and gentled her, encouraging: ‘That's good, mate.’
- She quickly assessed the young man, the pallor of the police officer's face and gentled her tone as she asked, ‘Can you tell me what you saw, please?’
- He gave me an apologetic smile; the arms around me instantly gentled and he took a small step away from me.
- His face gentled, and he touched his forehead to the other's.
- Clark's voice is reminiscent of Matt Mays gentled down a bit.
- That crisp moon was so beautiful, so sublime, so utterly perfect, that it ordered my thoughts and gentled me into a deep rest till morning.
- He looked to the sky and calmed the storm, gentling the wind and made the snow fall thinner.
- His fingers tightened on her arm painfully, and gentled at her involuntary hiss.
- 1.1with object Touch (a person or animal) gently, typically in order to make them calmer or more docile.
Example sentencesExamples - In my early training days, I was taught that the first thing a real trainer did was to gentle a horse.
- They had her gentled at a trainer's farm and then they kept her for a few years as a simple backyard riding pony.
- You gentled him, taught him to lead, broke him, and everything.
- Do gentled and trained mustangs serve a useful purpose?
- He once worked in a clinic in Lenexa with western Quarter Horses never touched and gentled two horses.
- The remarkableness of this accomplishment was that Smith also gentled these horses with a broken foot in a cast.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French gentil 'high-born, noble', from Latin gentilis 'of the same clan' (see gentile). The original sense was 'nobly born', hence 'courteous, chivalrous', later 'mild, moderate in action or disposition' (mid 16th century). The root word shared by genteel (late 16th century), gentile (Late Middle English) ‘not Jewish’, and gentle is Latin gentilis ‘of a family or nation, of the same clan’, which came from gens ‘family, race’. Genteel and gentle originally had similar meanings. Genteel first meant ‘stylish, fashionable’, and ‘well bred’—the ironic or derogatory implications that it now tends to have date from the 19th century. The original sense of gentle was ‘nobly born’, from which came ‘courteous, chivalrous’, the idea behind gentleman (Middle English). See also blonde. Jaunty (mid 17th century) is an anglicization of the French for gentle, gentil and was first used to mean ‘gentile’.
Rhymesdental, mental, Oriental, parental, rental nounˈdʒɛnt(ə)lˈdʒɛn(t)l Fishing A maggot, especially the larva of a blowfly, used as bait. 〔渔〕（尤指用作鱼饵的）丽蝇幼虫；蛆 Example sentencesExamples - Some of the deeper slower water by the golf course and downstream is best fished with swim feeder rig using hemp as an attractor with gentles or casters as hook bait.
- The best fish reported to me was a barbel of 12-8 - on swim feeder rig and gentles as bait on a size ten hook.
- Mike's fish was caught on a size 12 hook baited with gentles.
- Chub are the number one species at the moment with swim feeder rig and gentles being the top way of fishing.
- Many anglers use pellets, boilies, gentles, casters and various flavoured paste baits, but for me it's bread.
OriginLate 16th century: probably from an obsolete sense of the adjective, 'soft, pliant'. adjectiveˈdʒɛn(t)lˈjen(t)l 1Having or showing a mild, kind, or tender temperament or character. he was a gentle, sensitive man 他是个和蔼而又善解人意的人。 Example sentencesExamples - Kind and gentle in his manner, John had a smile for everyone.
- May was a gentle person who retained a well balanced perspective on life throughout her long years.
- She was gentle and supportive, and these were qualities which carried over in to her work at the family centre.
- He is exposed as a complex character, gentle, understanding, patient and loving in private.
- Is this what gentle, tender young guys can expect from their future?
- Kind and gentle in his manner always, he spent his life caring for others and never thinking of self.
- The minister, though gentle in character, is firm of purpose.
- I am amazed how gentle he is with the youngest child who is four.
- By nature, he was gentle and mild, but he now mustered up his courage to take a step that was necessary.
- Ben has many qualities: he is gentle, fun and brave.
- In person he is gentle and friendly, and wouldn't think of putting you on, perhaps because Miller isn't yet accustomed to being interviewed.
- Barbara was a very, very gentle person, but she was not bashful about expressing her point of view.
- Harmeet is the kindest, most compassionate, humble and gentle soul I have ever met.
- A pleasant, good natured and gentle person, Una's caring qualities were always to the fore.
- They were gentle people who went quietly about their lives, always willing and glad to be able to lend a helping hand to neighbours and friends.
- The beloved is portrayed as gentle, sensitive, tender and compassionate.
- I respect her, she seems like a kind and gentle person.
- In person, she is gentle, candid and softly spoken.
- They were a dedicated group of nice, intelligent and gentle people, as opposed to the grizzly war-loving soldiers I expected.
- It still surprised her that a part of Arlan could be so gentle and tender, that he wasn't all the hard exterior he seemed to be.
Synonyms kind, kindly, tender, benign, humane, lenient, merciful, forgiving, forbearing, sympathetic, considerate, understanding, clement, compassionate, benevolent, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, good-natured, sweet-tempered, loving 2Moderate in action, effect, or degree; not harsh or severe. （动作、影响或程度）轻缓的；温和的；不厉害的 和风。 a little gentle persuasion 和风细雨般的劝说。 Example sentencesExamples - Acceptance is the tender and gentle process of opening our hearts to others, to ourselves, and to our common ground of suffering.
- Just before I pass out, strong yet gentle arms pick me up.
- He shrugged and gave the the same gentle smile as before and pulled me into a hug.
- One more gentle squeeze on his arm, and Jim rose and left the room.
- But, remember to be very gentle, babies are quite fragile.
- The lesson here for websites providing subscriptions is that if you must use ‘gentle reminders’ make sure they are actually gentle.
- Noncirculating air feels up to 9 degrees warmer than the gentle air circulation from a ceiling fan.
- Slowly Nathan brought his head down, stealing her lips in a gentle kiss.
- You can also employ gentle persuasion and subtlety to excellent effect.
- A cleanser, astringent, gentle abrasive and mild bleaching agent, baking soda is a true all-purpose beauty aid.
- Cleansing routines should be consistently followed twice a day to include a mild soap, a gentle scrub and a deep pore cleanser.
- But, with a surprisingly gentle touch, she brushes his hair away from his forehead.
- Yet the softness of the edges of the silhouettes and the equal softness of the charcoal surfaces produce a soothing, gentle effect.
- They respond well to gentle stewing or simmering.
- The long grass ripple like the ocean waves under the surprisingly gentle sea breeze.
- He knew that he would always be very gentle with her.
- His voice was so gentle, and yet so firm as well.
- Birds called in the distance, and a gentle breeze was rustling the leaves.
- His tone was gentle and solicitous, but Miguel didn't trust it.
- He leaned towards her, pulled her close and gave her a gentle kiss.
Synonyms light, soft, zephyr-like, moderate, pleasant - 2.1 (of a slope) gradual.
（坡度）平缓的，不陡的 坡度平缓的堤坝。 Example sentencesExamples - These sediments accumulate to form the large, gentle slope of the continental rise.
- Close to the beginners meadow are gentle slopes, which become imperceptibly steeper, enabling you to improve without fear.
- The new trail rounds the curve out more, and at the same time provides a slightly more gentle slope.
- Mel was clambering down a gentle slope, loosening bits of rocks and soil, towards what he supposed was the Cobalt River.
- The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm.
- Along the gentle slope of the mountains, the quarry stretched across an exposed cliff face.
- Wandering down the gentle slope to the lake we put last week into perspective and start thinking next week will probably turn out reasonably OK.
- This is an area long valued as well-drained farming land, being a gentle slope, and underneath limestone.
- You can pole across the main street to the start of a gentle slope that leads to the chairlifts, from which the whole, huge area is accessible.
- The first part of the hill was quite easy - a gentle slope that flattened off into a brief plateau.
- He had always been nervous during swimming lessons at our local pool, but the wave pool had a gentle slope and was shallow for more than half its length.
- Beside our chalet, for example, was a gentle slope that proved perfect for bum-boarding.
- First, the lake's shallow swimming area was excavated, creating a gentle slope to a depth of four feet.
- The south slope is more gentle and ends in a marshy bay.
- In areas where spring frosts threaten developing buds and flowers, plant where air drainage is adequate, such as midway down a gentle slope.
- They were doing it the easy way round - gentle slope followed by breakneck descent, but it was clearly regarded as a children-friendly route.
- The sea-floor has been described as extraordinary flat and exhibiting a very gentle slope towards the shore of an almost level land.
- One is that obviously you want to drive on fairly gentle slopes.
- In the summer, they nest along stream bottoms and areas with gentle slopes.
- Geologically, the Cotswolds were created from a large block of oolitic limestone tilting up at its western end to form today's escarpment, with a gentle slope tilting to the east.
Synonyms gradual, slight, easy, imperceptible
3archaic (of a person) noble or having the qualities attributed to noble birth; courteous and chivalrous. 〈古〉品格高尚的；门第高的，出身高贵的；谦恭有礼的；仁心侠胆的 Example sentencesExamples - My dinner guests were gentle people with refined sensibilities.
- Tennis is the game of the gentle people, the game so prim, so historical… so deranged.
- She could be described as a refined, gentle lady, with admirable intellectual qualities.
Synonyms aristocratic, noble, titled, upper-class, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, patrician, elite
verbˈdʒɛn(t)lˈjen(t)l 1Make or become gentle; calm or pacify. 使（或变）温柔；（使）平静；宽慰 no object Cobb's tone gentled a little 科布的语气缓和了一些。 Example sentencesExamples - Clark's voice is reminiscent of Matt Mays gentled down a bit.
- The hands that held her upper arms gentled, though they did not relinquish their hold.
- She gentled the kiss, kissing him back softly, slowly, until his rage had melted away.
- He grabbed the side of her face, and gentled the kiss, as if she were a fragile piece of glass.
- We waited till after tea, when the fierce sun of the afternoon had gentled into a golden glow.
- That crisp moon was so beautiful, so sublime, so utterly perfect, that it ordered my thoughts and gentled me into a deep rest till morning.
- His fingers tightened on her arm painfully, and gentled at her involuntary hiss.
- The sun laid the previous day to rest, and gentled the fears of the night.
- It gentles our character as a whole, rendering us more patient and respectful toward others, more attentive to and interested in people's thoughts and feelings.
- She quickly assessed the young man, the pallor of the police officer's face and gentled her tone as she asked, ‘Can you tell me what you saw, please?’
- He looked to the sky and calmed the storm, gentling the wind and made the snow fall thinner.
- Jesse gentled his grip but his eyes remained hard as they scanned over Joel's injuries.
- The journey back wasn't half as bad as the one up and soon the harshness of the landscape was gentled with green.
- He gave me an apologetic smile; the arms around me instantly gentled and he took a small step away from me.
- When the rain gentled, it was like softly flowing tears that seemed to be steaming in the half-light, falling on dimly glowing skin and turning to nothing more than morning mist.
- He rubbed her chest, and gentled her, encouraging: ‘That's good, mate.’
- She was exhausted, her eyelids seemed to be made of lead, and her rump was sore from the long ride, gentled though it had been by the magic that masked their flight.
- ‘Sorry’ he said gentling his touch a bit when he heard her gasp.
- His face gentled, and he touched his forehead to the other's.
- Thus, we noticed that the no-nonsense lines of the building have been gentled by a topiary maze in the foreground.
- 1.1with object Make (an animal) docile by gentle handling.
（以温和的方式）驯服（动物） a bird that has been gentled enough to sit on the hand 被调教得可立于掌上的鸟儿。 Example sentencesExamples - The remarkableness of this accomplishment was that Smith also gentled these horses with a broken foot in a cast.
- Do gentled and trained mustangs serve a useful purpose?
- They had her gentled at a trainer's farm and then they kept her for a few years as a simple backyard riding pony.
- You gentled him, taught him to lead, broke him, and everything.
- He once worked in a clinic in Lenexa with western Quarter Horses never touched and gentled two horses.
- In my early training days, I was taught that the first thing a real trainer did was to gentle a horse.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French gentil ‘high-born, noble’, from Latin gentilis ‘of the same clan’ (see gentile). The original sense was ‘nobly born’, hence ‘courteous, chivalrous’, later ‘mild, moderate in action or disposition’ (mid 16th century). nounˈdʒɛn(t)lˈjen(t)l Fishing A maggot, especially the larva of a blowfly, used as bait. 〔渔〕（尤指用作鱼饵的）丽蝇幼虫；蛆 Example sentencesExamples - Many anglers use pellets, boilies, gentles, casters and various flavoured paste baits, but for me it's bread.
- Chub are the number one species at the moment with swim feeder rig and gentles being the top way of fishing.
- The best fish reported to me was a barbel of 12-8 - on swim feeder rig and gentles as bait on a size ten hook.
- Some of the deeper slower water by the golf course and downstream is best fished with swim feeder rig using hemp as an attractor with gentles or casters as hook bait.
- Mike's fish was caught on a size 12 hook baited with gentles.
OriginLate 16th century: probably from an obsolete sense of the adjective, ‘soft, pliant’. |