| 词汇 | complaisant |
| 释义 | complaisant adjective formaluk /kəmˈpleɪ.zənt/ us /kəmˈpleɪ.sənt/ willing to satisfy others by being polite and fitting in with their plans: 殷勤的;顺从的 She carried on passionate love affairs with the consent of her complaisant husband.她得到顺从的丈夫的同意，继续着热烈的婚外情。 His comment went unchallenged by the complaisant Morgan.他的评论并没有受到一贯顺从的摩根的质疑。 Synonyms accommodating acquiescentformal amenable compliantformal docile malleable obedient pliant(PERSON) See complaisance He cursed himself inwardly for having been so complaisant for so long. He spent the next hour setting up an alibi with two complaisant friends. We need solutions which will keep everyone happy and complaisant. Obedient and compliant accordance acquiescent acquiescently adherence do as someone is told dutiful dutifully easy follower followership pursuant ruly sheep sheeple slavish slavishly someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom truckle what/whatever someone says goesidiom yielding Examples of complaisantcomplaisant Gentlemen became subject to the ideals of politeness, in which men were expected to control their emotions and be generous and complaisant towards those with whom they interacted. Analytically, the book explores the ways in which multinational oil corporations, local agro-exporting interests and a complaisant state seek to establish forms of neoliberal government in a third-world country. We appeared to be docile, tame, subservient, complaisant and non-protesting against that line of conduct. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the past, fire authorities may have been over-complacent—and complaisant—in conniving with that, and we must address the issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Should we show ourselves complaisant in our own destruction, we shall earn that destruction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For married women with young children, birth control and planning their families is essential, as well as a complaisant husband—and this is a really great help. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But it would help to check the sort of deception where a grossly excessive price is recommended by a complaisant supplier to just one or a few retailers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have become much too complaisant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By 1989, citizens who had been complaisant were willing to openly express their discontent with the regime. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Lodovico is a ridiculously complaisant husband. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A rival name, graceful spiny-rat, is no better justified; "gratiosus" specifically means either enjoying favour, favoured, beloved, or showing favour, complaisant a favourite, or at best gracious, not graceful. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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