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mild-mannered

Romanian translation: mai reţinuţi


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English term or phrase:mild-mannered
Romanian translation:mai reţinuţi
Entered by: ionutzavram
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07:37 Oct 12, 2008
English to Romanian translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: mild-mannered
When you're passionate, you tend to speed up the tempo with which you speak. You tend totalk more rapidly. Even people who are mild-mannered, when they get passionate, will start usingtheir hands, and their gestures, and their body.
ionutzavram
mai reţinuţi
Explanation:
mai liniştiţi, mai calmi, mai domoli.
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Sigina
Romania
Local time: 18:37
Grading comment
multumesc
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2mai reţinuţi
Sigina
4 +1moderat
Cristina Bolohan
4 +1persoană domoală
Elena-Simona Craciun
3blajin
valhalla55


  

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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
blajin


Explanation:
o sugestie

valhalla55
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 7
Notes to answerer
Asker: multumesc mult

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
mild-mannered person
persoană domoală


Explanation:

prefer termenul ăsta celuilalt, doar din motive fonice.

Elena-Simona Craciun
Local time: 18:37
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
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Asker: multumesc mult


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agree  Anca Nitu
7 hrs
  -> Mulţumesc, Anca!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
moderat


Explanation:
mild-mannered - behaving in or having a mild or gentle manner
mild - moderate in type or degree or effect or force
www.thefreedictionary.com/mild-mannered
chair si persoanele moderate/calme cand sunt pasionate de ceva incep sa-si foloseasca mainile

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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-10-12 09:56:50 GMT)
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If you describe someone as mild-mannered, you approve of them because they are gentle, kind, and polite.
dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/mild-mannered
persoane moderate, amabile/binevoitoare si politicoase

Cristina Bolohan
Romania
Local time: 18:37
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 160
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Asker: multumesc mult


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agree  rodi_ciobanu
4 days
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
mai reţinuţi


Explanation:
mai liniştiţi, mai calmi, mai domoli.

Sigina
Romania
Local time: 18:37
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Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
multumesc
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Asker: myltumesc mult


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Valentin Cirdei: Exact.
12 mins
  -> `Ţumesc :p

agree  Iosif JUHASZ
5 hrs
  -> Mersi, Iosif :)
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