英:[kəm'pleɪsns]
美:[kəmˈplesəns]
英:[kəm'pleɪsns]
美:[kəmˈplesəns]
n.
自满
沾沾自喜
满足
满意
Noun
1. the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself;
"his complacency was absolutely disgusting"
15世纪中期,“愉悦,满足”,尤其是“自我满足,对自己状态的喜悦”(约1500年),源自中世纪拉丁语 complacentia “满足,愉悦”,来自拉丁语 complacentem(做主格 complacens), complacere “非常令人愉悦”,其中 com- 在这里可能是一个加强前缀(见 com-),再加上 placere “令人愉悦”(见 please (v.))。 “愿意请人”(1620年代)现在与 complaisance 联系在一起。
The first known use of complacence was in the 15th century
complacencynoun
complacence
complacencenoun
a calm or satisfied feeling about one's self : self-satisfaction
1 She made no further progress because of complacence.
由于自满,她没有取得进一步进展。
2 The military ardour of the young ladies rapidly subsided—citizens were again at par—and Harriet and Caroline began to look with complacence on their old admirers.
3 Rhys made a good market, and came home with self-satisfied complacence at a late hour, to sup and turn over his gains to his mother, along with the news of the day.
4 That sort of complacence doesn't cut it with consumers in China, where the big three telecom providers are expected to roll out 5G networks in most major cities by the end of this year.
5 someone who displayed a startling complacence toward his own financial plight
6 His complacence is more nauseating than his weakness.
7 "There aren't husbands enough for all of us," Sarella, who was "practical" and slightly statistical, remarked, with the complacence of one for whom a husband had been forthcoming.
8 Its literature was at the time alien and inimical to Christian Spain, which, as we shall see later, did not regard anything Saracen with complacence until its sword crossed no longer with the scimitar.
9 But those who were absent in the provinces, being neither under the immediate power of Nero nor partners in his excesses, did not endure with such complacence the shame he put upon the Roman name.
10 These are of course not reasons for complacence.
11 Culduff will not agree to it, but I declare to you she was positively vulgar in the smirking complacence in which she presented the man as her future husband.
12 It would be blasphemy to pretend that because God, as a universal ruler, suffers sin, we can take a complacence in its being committed by others.
13 For all the hints and parallels with Eden, Philip and Sue's journey from suburban complacence to slightly diminished suburban complacence doesn't really support the Miltonic frame of reference.
14 I knew that at least heavenly truth would not be kept out by self complacence and dependence on good appearances....
15 There's been a lot of years of complacence from a lot of people who thought everything was OK but weren't really listening to what was going on and what wasn't OK.
16 And for complacence, if I had had any disposition toward it, I was saved by the shocking example of Forester, all of whose relations were tinged by his vocation of model son.
17 Si was happy, and as he began to cast about for his supper he even viewed with complacence his bacon burned to a crisp and his capsized coffee-pot helplessly melting away in the fire.
18 Then the smiling complacence of his face suddenly changed and the wire conveyed an exclamation of annoyance.
19 At first he speaks with complacence of a m�l�e, and reports that he and his men “agreed to charge” the enemy.
20 Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.
讽刺作品使我们排除了自满情绪,并愉快地惊叹道许多我们毫无疑问地接受的价值观是错误的。
1 得意
Pet proud vain complacent elated great complacently exultingly conqueringly pride inflation exaltation exultation glory exult feel oneself flattered
2 心满意足
3 自满
complacent self-satisfied self-complacent vanity swell do oneself proud self-pleased inflated smug self-assured self-congratulatory self-complacence self-satisfaction self-congratulation self-complacency superbity get above oneself
4 骄傲自满