phlegmatic

英 [fleg'mætɪk] 美 [flɛɡ'mætɪk]

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※ 提供单词"phlegmatic"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

phlegmatic 冷淡的，迟钝的，冷静的，镇定的

来自phlegm,冷淡，迟钝，冷静，镇定。

phlegmatic (adj.): "cool, calm, self-possessed," and in a more pejorative sense, "cold, dull, apathetic," 1570s, from literal sense "abounding in phlegm (as a bodily humor)" (mid-14c., fleumatik), from Old French fleumatique (13c., Modern French flegmatique), from Late Latin phlegmaticus, from Greek phlegmatikos "abounding in phlegm" (see phlegm).
A verry flewmatike man is in the body lustles, heuy and slow. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]

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1. He is too still, unmoved, phlegmatic to be happy.: 他太安静、太冷淡,太不动感情, 因而郁郁不欢.

2. The mathematician , Yurchenko , was a stubby , phlegmatic , shrewd person.: 数学教师尤尔钦科是个矮胖的, 冷漠而机灵的人.

4. Commuting in the rush - hour requires a phlegmatic temperament.: 在上下班交通高峰期间乘坐通勤车要有安之若素的心境.

5. A tear moistened the eye of the phlegmatic Englishman.: 那英国人虽然平时极不易动感情,这时却也两眼湿润了.