sedate
adj. 安靜的; 沉著的; 鎮靜的; 靜肅的
vt. 使昏昏入睡; 使鎮靜; 給…服鎮靜劑
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...
她帶他們去拜訪她那些不苟言笑的表兄表姐們。
Her London life was sedate, almost mundane...
她在倫敦的生活平淡無奇,幾乎有些枯燥。
If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way.
We set off again at a more sedate pace.
我們重新上路了,步調更加從容。
...a heavy car with solid but sedate performance.
一輛效能穩定但行駛緩慢的重型汽車
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...
靜脈注射了鎮靜劑後病人安然入睡。
Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths.
醫生們已被告知不要給兒童使用麻醉劑,因為它可能與5起死亡病例有關。
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.
如果要選擇更安靜一點的方式,則有古董蒸汽輪船恩斯羅號.
I seemed to be reduced to my former calm, sedate way of living.
我似乎又恢復了以前那種安定, 寧靜的生活方式.
We spent a sedate evening at home.
我們在家裡過了一個恬靜的夜晚.
She is very sedate for a child and would rather read or sew than play.
作為一個孩子她很穩重而且寧願閱讀或縫衣也不玩耍.
Betty is a sedate girl.
貝蒂是個恬靜的姑娘.