obsequious

英语

词源

源自中古英語 obsequyous，源自拉丁語 obsequiōsus (“顺从的，点头哈腰的”) ，源自obsequium (“顺从”)，源自obsequor (“服从，遵守”)，源自ob (“朝向”) + sequor (“跟随”)（对比sequel）。

发音

• (英國，美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /əbˈsiːkwi.əs/

• （美国）音频：

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形容词

obsequious (比較級 more obsequious，最高級 most obsequious)

1. 点头哈腰的，阿谀奉承的

   近義詞：fawning、ingratiating、servile、slavish、sycophantic、truckling、smarmy、asskissing；亦參見Thesaurus:sycophantic

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   • 1927，Thornton Wilder，The Bridge of San Luis Rey，頁 20:

     Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.

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2. (古舊) 顺从的，服从的，遵命的

   近義詞：參見Thesaurus:obedient

   • 1842，[anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon]，章號 XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […]，卷 II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC，頁 140:

     Our ladies were situated as well as it was possible; they had good servants, splendid rooms, obsequious attendants, and had become habituated to the country, so that the loss of the Count was not any thing of moment beyond the pleasure of his society; […]

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3. (棄用) 葬礼的
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衍生词汇

• obsequiously
• obsequiousness
• obsequity

相关词汇

• obsequy
• obsequies

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