1. We fed them for a while, amazed at their tameness. 我们喂了它们一阵子,对它们的温顺感到惊奇。
2. It is a pleasant thing to behold the tameness of animals. 看见一头驯服的野兽是一件有趣的事。
3. The change of her views actually reflects the inherent contradiction of mass culture:between fighting and tameness, seriousness and anti-intellectualism. 而她观点的变化,实际上也揭示了大众文化本身的矛盾:纠缠于“反抗”与“驯服”、“严肃”与“反智”之间。
4. Under the influence of foreign and traditional Chinese culture, Chinese lion statues were given a heavy tint of tameness, representing a grand new Chinese lion culture. 中国的狮子造型在吸收外来造型影响的基础上,被赋予了浓厚的驯良色彩,并充分地与中国传统文化相融合,演绎了一种全新的华夏狮文化。
5. You know I am a scoundrel, Jane? Ere long he inquired wistfully — wondering, I suppose, at my continued silence and tameness, the result rather of weakness than of will. “你知道我是个恶棍吗,简?”不久他若有所思地问——我想是对我继续缄默令神而感到纳闷,我那种心情是软弱而不是意志力的表现。