sedate
adj. 安静的; 沉着的; 镇静的; 静肃的
vt. 使昏昏入睡; 使镇静; 给…服镇静剂
If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull.
She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins...
她带他们去拜访她那些不苟言笑的表兄表姐们。
Her London life was sedate, almost mundane...
她在伦敦的生活平淡无奇,几乎有些枯燥。
If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way.
We set off again at a more sedate pace.
我们重新上路了,步调更加从容。
...a heavy car with solid but sedate performance.
一辆性能稳定但行驶缓慢的重型汽车
If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep.
The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs...
静脉注射了镇静剂后病人安然入睡。
Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths.
医生们已被告知不要给儿童使用麻醉剂,因为它可能与5起死亡病例有关。
1. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;
1. characterized by dignity and propriety
2. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises;
A more sedate option is the lovely old steamship TSS Earnslaw.
如果要选择更安静一点的方式,则有古董蒸汽轮船恩斯罗号.
I seemed to be reduced to my former calm, sedate way of living.
我似乎又恢复了以前那种安定, 宁静的生活方式.
We spent a sedate evening at home.
我们在家里过了一个恬静的夜晚.
She is very sedate for a child and would rather read or sew than play.
作为一个孩子她很稳重而且宁愿阅读或缝衣也不玩耍.
Betty is a sedate girl.
贝蒂是个恬静的姑娘.