meek
meek 英 [mi:k] 美 [mik]
adj. 温顺的；谦恭的；驯服的
比较级:meeker 最高级:meekest
- The adjective meek describes a person who is willing to go along with whatever other people want to do, like a meek classmate who won't speak up, even when he or she is treated unfairly.
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- adj. 温顺的；谦恭的；驯服的
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1. They are “meek”.
他们是“温顺的”。
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2. " The notion that our Lord was always "gentle Jesus, meek and mild," as if he spent his days saying nice things to make people feel better is only possible if you never read the gospels.
人们却往往觉得主耶稣是仅仅是温柔、温顺、温和的，”你要是没看过福音书，就只能认为主耶稣只不过花了一些时间，说了一些好听的话，让人觉得好过了一些，仅此而已。
- meek (adj.) c. 1200, "gentle, quiet, unaggressive; benevolent, kind; courteous, humble, unassuming;" of a woman, "modest," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse mjukr "soft, pliant, gentle," from Proto-Germanic *meukaz (source also of Gothic muka-modei "humility," Dutch muik "soft"), of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE *meug- "slippery, slimy." In the Bible, it translates Latin mansuetus from Vulgate (see mansuetude). Sense of "submissive" is from mid-14c.
- meek (n.) "those who are meek," c. 1200, from meek (adj.).
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