Meekness

(noun.) a disposition to be patient and long suffering.

(noun.) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness.

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• The Count, with truly Christian meekness of temper, smiled and left the room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am pretty well, I thank you, answered Mr. Lorry, with meekness; how are you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Lydgate was bowing his neck under the yoke like a creature who had talons, but who had Reason too, which often reduces us to meekness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Snagsby, with his cough of meekness, rejoins, Wouldn't you really, my dear? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He tends to meekness and obesity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She was angered quickly, but she forgave just as readily, and underneath her pride there was the meekness of a child. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Bishop said he was glad to think that this wealth flowed into the coffers of a gentleman who accepted it with meekness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This mound of meekness, this lump of love, this bottle-green smiler, this is your driver! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• As if he denied himself the pleasure of uttering it, lest he should soar too high; and his meekness therefore preferred to be unmeaning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• You would oblige me greatly by doing so, Dorothea, said Mr. Casaubon, with a shade more meekness than usual in his polite manner. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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