| 词汇 | complacency |
| 释义 | complacency noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /kəmˈpleɪ.sən.si/ us /kəmˈpleɪ.sən.si/(alsocomplacence, uk /kəmˈpleɪ.səns/ us /kəmˈpleɪ.səns/) a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder: 自满，自鸣得意 What annoys me about these girls is their complacency - they seem to have no desire to expand their horizons.这些姑娘让我生气的是她们的自满情绪——她们似乎根本没有扩展知识面的愿望。 There's no room for complacency if we want to stay in this competition!我们要想在竞争中立足就决不能自满！ Satisfied and complacent at one with the worldidiom be on to a good thingidiom complacent complacently content pride rest on your laurelsidiom rewardingly sate sated self-content self-contented self-contentedly self-fulfilled self-fulfilment this is the life!idiom triumphalism undiscouraged unenvious virtuously complacency | American Dictionarycomplacency noun[ U ] esp. disapprovingus/kəmˈpleɪ·sən·si/ a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder: We’re finally making a profit, but there is no reason for complacency. complacentadjectiveus/kəmˈplei·sənt/ esp. disapproving a complacent attitude Examples of complacencycomplacency Perhaps the most provocative thing to say is that there is a danger of complacency among some young writers. Perhaps understanding will replace complacency and indifference with prevention and treatment strategies and ultimately reduce the socio-economic burden of this condition. However, by increasing income, these programs may also increase complacency among producers and reduce their incentive to try alternative approaches to agriculture. Limiting ourselves to a single cultural perspective leaves us vulnerable not only to complacency but - what is worse - to collective delusions. But if such complacency cannot be countenanced, that returns us to our original problem. Inspectors sent to provinces were supposed to report on complacency and corruption of local party officials and propose measures for eliminating specified inadequacies. Thus, the play can be linked directly with the then-current economic euphoria combined with political amnesia and complacency. These two books are helpful both in challenging our complacency and in pointing the way towards creativity and innovation. Everything is here: surprise, dismay, complacency, botched-up appearances, introversion, ego split, and unhealthy spirituality. However, complacency with existing models rarely serves the scientific mind, and it will be interesting to see what future work reveals. Instead of complacency, the main point of interest became the conflict between opponent theories involving different disciplines and their consequently different concepts. Uncertainty and doubt concerning the future of mathematics have replaced the certainties and complacency of the past. Neo-orthodoxy mocked its complacency, liberation theology its timidity. This carefully researched and gracefully written book has the authority of an inhouse history with none of its complacency. Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture. 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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