phlegmatic

• adj. 冷たい；だるそう；無関心

痰から、冷たい、だるい、冷静、鎮静。

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]

1. He is too still，unmoved， phlegmatic to be happy.

彼は静かすぎて、冷たくて、あまりにも感情を動かさないので、鬱々としていて好きではありません。

2.The mathematician，Yurchenko，was a stubby， phlegmatic ，shrewd person.

数学教師ユルチン科は、ずんぐりしていて、冷たくて利口な人だ。

3.The British character is often said to be phlegmatic .

イギリス人の性格は冷たいとよく言われています。

4.Commuting in the rush-hour requires a phlegmatic temperament.

通勤ラッシュ時に通勤車に乗るには安らぎの気持ちが必要だ。