Complacency
[kəm'pleɪs(ə)nsɪ] or [kəm'plesnsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; 'his complacency was absolutely disgusting'.
伊恩校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.
(n.) The cause of pleasure or joy.
(n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
道格拉斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Satisfaction, gratification, pleasure, content, contentment.[2]. Civility, courtesy, politeness, complaisance.
整理:泰勒
例句/造句/用法:
- Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Wounded desperate, miss,' replied Giles, with indescribable complacency. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Esterhazy laughed with the most perfect self-complacency. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Chesney Wold, Thomas, rejoins the housekeeper with proud complacency, will set my Lady up! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Their brother, indeed, was the only one of the party whom she could regard with any complacency. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I have just been to see her, said Mr. van der Luyden, complacency restored to his brow. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- From early youth he had considered his pedigree with complacency, and bitterly lamented his want of wealth. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Know yourself, Raymond, and your indignation will cease; your complacency return. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Mrs. Norris was all delight and volubility; and even Fanny had something to say in admiration, and might be heard with complacency. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- 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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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. 雪麗.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The word _home_ made his father look on him with fresh complacency. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
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