complacency

英语

其他形式

• complacence (古舊)

词源

晚期中古英語 complacence，源自晚期拉丁語 complacentia。对比法語 complaisance。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /kəmˈpleɪsənˌsiː/

• （英国）音频：

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名词

complacency (可數 和 不可數，複數 complacencies)

1. 自满，得意忘形
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   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 章號 5, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC:

     […] looking at Mr. George Osborne's pale interesting countenance, and those beautiful black, curling, shining whiskers, which the young gentleman himself regarded with no ordinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty's army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero.

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2. 自满产生的消极，不思进取

近义词

• the English vice

衍生词汇

• automation complacency
• self-complacency

相关词汇

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