1·Mules have strong muscles like horses but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler like donkeys.
骡子和马一样有强壮的肌肉，但它们吃得更少，工作时间更长，而且像驴一样温和。
2·Years ago, people tended to see evolution as a competition for survival of the fittest. But now there is more emphasis on the gentler virtues.
数年前，人们倾向于把进化看作是一种竞争，适者生存的竞争，但现在更加地强调温和的美德。
3·In this sense, ours is a kinder, gentler, more forgiving country than it was 40 years ago.
从这个意义上讲，我们是一个比40年前更仁慈、温和宽容的国家。
4·Yet in its youth it was, like its gentler sister Earth, swathed in oceans that provided a suitable breeding ground for life.
然而，金星年轻的时候曾和它温和的妹妹地球一样被适合孕育生命的海洋包裹着。
5·Sports fans who are turned off by the sometimes brutal intensity of ice hockey can tune in to the gentler figure skating competition.
有时过于粗暴的冰上曲棍球使运动迷们失去了兴趣，他们可以观看较温和的花样滑冰赛。