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unruffled

/uhn-ruhf-uhld/US // ʌnˈrʌf əld //UK // (ʌnˈrʌfəld) //

从容不迫,不慌不忙,从容不迫的,从容不迫地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : calm; not emotionally upset or agitated; steady; unflustered: He became all excited, but she remained unruffled.
    • : not ruffled, as a garment; smooth.

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Examples

  • Like his surroundings, the Spanish-born scientist is reserved and unruffled, and speaks softly—never hinting at the fanfare-deserving scientific and ethical boundaries he pushes every day with his work.

  • As his fortunes waxed and waned, although his preferred candidates sometimes lost elections, he seemed unruffled.

  • Margery, with unruffled New Orleans charm, took it as a matter of course that everyone who turned up would need feeding.

  • Gonzalez, seeming unruffled, responded that Forde could have worn a wig.

  • "Uh-huh, that must be it," said Betty, with an unruffled good-nature that made Grace secretly ashamed of herself.

  • The sea was unruffled, and we were sailing towards the pier with full sail, and a gentle morning breeze.

  • Here I had no alarms, no fatiguing journeys, no anxiety; my mind became calm and unruffled, and I was once more at peace.

  • But now there was some malice in his smiling good-humour; a little cruelty in the brightness of his unruffled serenity.

  • Adelaide turned her quiet face, unflushed, unruffled, and neither laughed sillily nor looked slyly.