When John spoke in that masterful tone, Meg always obeyed, and never regretted her docility.

当约翰用那专横的语气说话时，梅格总是服从，而且从不后悔自己的顺从。

He listened to me with docility, or rather with eagerness.

他温顺地，或者更确切地说， 热切地听我说话。

He walked by her side with docility and listened, not without deference, to her outbursts.

他温顺地走在她身边， 不无尊重地听着她的爆发。

She met that criticism as her temperament dictated, with docility and diffidence, or with anger and emphasis.

她以温顺和羞怯，或以愤怒和强调的态度评，因为她的气质决定了一点。

They are selectively bred, not least for docility, and share some cattle genes after crossbreeding that happened a bit over 100 years ago.

人类野牛进行选择性繁殖，主要是为了培育温顺的个性，并且在100多年前发生的杂交后，野牛也拥有着一些家牛基因。

I never knew a weak or ignorant person who had a good temper, though that constitutional good humour, and that docility, which fear stamps on the behaviour, often obtains the name.

我从来没有见过一个软弱或无知的人有好脾气，尽管那天生的好脾气，以及那因恐惧而加在行为上的温顺，常常得名。

Amy was a model of docility, and as her aunt was a good deal occupied with Flo, she was left to entertain her friend, and did it with more than her usual success.

艾米是温顺的典范，由于她的姨妈忙于照顾弗洛，她只好去招待她的朋友，而且比平时更成功。

The strength of the mastiff is not in the least supported either by the swiftness of the greyhound, or by the sagacity of the spaniel, or by the docility of the shepherd's dog.

獒犬的力量丝毫没有得到灵缇犬的敏捷、西班牙猎犬的机智或牧羊犬的温顺的支持。

Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy.

在个基础上，温柔、温顺和像猎犬一样的感情一直被推荐为性别的主要美德；而且，一位作家无视自然的任意经济，宣称女人忧郁是阳刚之气。