Complacency
[kəm'pleɪs(ə)nsɪ] or [kəm'plesnsi]
解释:
(noun.) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; 'his complacency was absolutely disgusting'.
伊恩校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.
(n.) The cause of pleasure or joy.
(n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
道格拉斯校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Satisfaction, gratification, pleasure, content, contentment.[2]. Civility, courtesy, politeness, complaisance.
整理:泰勒
例句:
- Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Wounded desperate, miss,' replied Giles, with indescribable complacency. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Esterhazy laughed with the most perfect self-complacency. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Chesney Wold, Thomas, rejoins the housekeeper with proud complacency, will set my Lady up! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Their brother, indeed, was the only one of the party whom she could regard with any complacency. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I have just been to see her, said Mr. van der Luyden, complacency restored to his brow. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- From early youth he had considered his pedigree with complacency, and bitterly lamented his want of wealth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Know yourself, Raymond, and your indignation will cease; your complacency return. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Mrs. Norris was all delight and volubility; and even Fanny had something to say in admiration, and might be heard with complacency. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Miss Mary--a well-looked, well-meant, and, on the whole, well-dispositioned girl--wore her complacency with some state, though without harshness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- No one who watched the textile strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1912 can forget the astounding effect it had on the complacency of the public. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The word _home_ made his father look on him with fresh complacency. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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