sedate

1. ADJ If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull. 沉靜的; 莊重的; 不苟言笑的

She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins. 她帶他們去探望她那些不苟言笑的表哥表姐們。

Her life was sedate, almost mundane. 她的生活很平靜，幾乎有些枯燥。

2. ADJ If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way. 不慌不忙的

We set off again at a more sedate pace. 我們又一次出發了,步調更加緩慢。

3. V-T If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep. (用鎮靜劑) 使鎮靜

The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs. 這名患者在靜脈注射了鎮靜劑後鎮靜了下來。