记忆方法
将“complaisant”分解为“com”+“plais”+“ant”。记忆方法：想象一个人（ant）面带微笑（plais），因为他做了让人满意（com）的事。这样的画面可以帮助你记住这个词的含义——乐于遵从或愉快的。
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词族 · complaisant
中文词源
complaisant 顺从的
com-, 强调。-plac, 满意，词源同please, placate.原指使自己满意的，后指使别人满意的，顺从的。注意词义与complacent的差别。
英语词源
- complaisant
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complaisant: [17] Complaisant and complacent [17] are virtual doublets. Both come from Latin complacēre ‘please greatly’ (a compound verb formed from placēre, source of English please), but they reached English along different routes. Complaisant came via French, from complaisant, the present participle of complaire ‘gratify’, but complacent was a direct borrowing from the Latin present participle. It originally meant simply ‘pleasant, delightful’, and did not take on its present derogatory connotations (at first expressed by the now obsolete complacential) until the mid 18th century.
=> complacent, please - complaisant (adj.)
- 1640s, from French complaisant (16c.), in Middle French, "pleasing," present participle of complaire "acquiesce to please," from Latin complacere "be very pleasing" (see complacent, with which it overlapped till mid-19c.). Possibly influenced in French by Old French plaire "gratify."
权威例句
- 1. 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.
- 2. She's always helpful and complaisant.
- 她总是又殷勤,又乐于助人.
- 3. He has a pretty and complaisant wife.
- 他有个漂亮又温顺的妻子
- 4. 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.
- 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.