| 词汇 | obedience |
| 释义 | obedience noun[ U ] uk /əˈbiː.di.əns/ us /oʊˈbiː.di.əns/ the fact that people or animals do what they are told to do: （人或动物的）服从，听话，驯服 He demands unquestioning obedience from his soldiers.他要求士兵们绝对服从。 Obedient and compliant accordance acquiescent acquiescently adherence compliantly do as someone is told dutiful dutifully easy follower pursuant ruly sheep sheeple slavish slavishly someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom truckle what/whatever someone says goesidiom yielding Examples of obedienceobedience The basic political assuption implicit in non-violent action is that governments are ultimately dependent on the fearful obedience and compliance of the people. Ministers in conflict with their parishioners were quick to insist on the obligations of unconditional obedience. With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct. It cultivated habits of obedience, and taught detainees to cooperate. Judges placed a premium on speed, agility and obedience in getting around the course and in negotiating obstacles. Inch by inch the disturbance rises as if the desert were rising in obedience to some upthrusting force beneath. The moral duty of assent to the truth is always binding whilst the religious duty of obedience to authoritative correction is not. An opposite reduction sets them firmly apart, in obedience to the names given to them by their makers. The federal system would demand the obedience of its subjects owing to its good behavior. They released the solifidian gospel from the accoutrements of human responsibility, duty, and obedience to which it had been tied. To be a private entails obedience to military superiors-but perhaps not to superiors who order their subordinates to commit atrocities or violate international law. To him, power, authority, effectiveness and obedience were important norms for organisations. Obedience and religion were both subject to cultural adaptation during the turbulent sixteenth century, as the three books under review will show. If we could, then perhaps trusting obedience might seem the right course. Classic social psychology has concentrated on explaining the proximate questions of many human behaviors, for example, how do perceptions of authority affect obedience or conformity? These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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