complaisant如何读

英:[kəmˈpleɪzənt]

美:[kəmˈplesənt, -zənt]

complaisant是什么意思

adj.

<正>恭敬的

恳切的

殷勤的

默认的

complaisant自然拼读

com·plai·sant

km pleI snt [or] km pleI znt

complaisant词根

词根:complaisant

n.

complaisance 殷勤;彬彬有礼;柔顺

complaisant英英释义

Adjective

1. showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others;

"to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"

"the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"

complaisant词源中文解释

1640年代,“彬彬有礼,渴望取悦他人”; 1670年代,“愿意顺从他人的意愿”; 源自法语 complaisant “愉悦的,乐于助人的,亲切的”(16世纪),是 complaire “顺从以取悦”的现在分词,源自拉丁语 complacere “非常令人愉悦”(参见 complacent,它们在意义上重叠,直到19世纪中期)。法语拼写可能受到了古法语 plaire “取悦”的影响。相关词: Complaisantly。

complaisant词源英文解释

French, from Middle French, from present participle of complaire to gratify, acquiesce, from Latin complacēre

The first known use of complaisant was in 1638

complaisant 例句

1 So she did want to talk about her broken engagement. Always complaisant, he put the letter away.

2 In each case, the man has an energetic wife who has continued making public appearances while her husband retreats behind a veil of discretion at which a complaisant press seems reluctant to tug.

3 In his mind was a dark and sinister plan to entice Yetta from her home and establish her in nominal employment with some complaisant woman.

4 What a pity that he declined polite society, where complaisant heiresses were to be met with who would joyfully take his coronet, and afterwards obey his mother.

5 The courtier obeyed the king's orders in a complaisant manner.

在朝臣服从国王的命令,在殷勤的方式进行。

6 The Schwabenspiegel, or code in force in southern Germany, is much more complaisant to the Church, but it knows of no jurisdiction over heretics save that of the bishops.

7 Onstage, there was absolutely nothing complaisant about her.

8 The complaisant committee had quite fallen in with Wyatt's idea.

9 She was an old - fashioned wife, entirely complaisant to her husband's will.

她是位旧式的妻子,对丈夫百依百顺。

10 Then streams at times complaisantly abandoned their old channels and formed new ones, leaving the intended reservoirs high and dry after the most deluging rains.

11 Or, to put it another way, a peevish old goat manages to cop off yet again with a complaisant babe.

12 However, Imperial County landowners and complaisant U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials ignored that limit, allowing rapid consolidation of land, says Andrés, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the county’s early years.

13 But Post Malone’s signature aesthetic gesture is the smear, the complaisant way his voice molds neatly to whatever’s handed to him.

14 These cases are quite different from the phoney stories planted by studio flacks from time immemorial, dependent on co-operative artists and a complaisant press.

15 While the Lady has more complaisant Sentiments, yours shan't disturb me, Sir, I assure you.

16 The more complaisant ones published the stories which the "press agent" of the association furnished on the "outrages."

17 The letter is very complaisant, and I shall now endeavor to get the shirts made as soon as possible.

18 Two or three very complaisant and patronizing young fellows came to invite her, but she replied that she did not know how to dance.

19 All this while, at some little distance, he dropt a great many complaisant words to the elder Sister, which look'd very much like Love, and which he indeed desired should be so interpreted.

20 A good servant should be complaisant but not servile.

一个好的仆人应该是殷勤的,而不是卑屈的。

complaisant 同义词

7 谦恭的

humble complacent

13 谦恭有礼的

fair-spoken

16 谦恭有礼

fair-spoken decorously

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