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    If someone is biddable, they do what they are told and they do not push back. You might hear it about a child, a dog, or — more — about an adult who never argues with the person in charge. It is not a high-frequency everyday word; it can sound slightly old-fashioned, or like a word from training and manners. It is not always a compliment. A biddable person can sound too easy to steer, as if they had no will of their own. The bid inside it is the old verb 'tell someone to do something' (as in 'do as you are bid'), not the auction bid where you offer money. Though actually those two bids later shared a spelling; here you want the 'command' one.

    聽話的、乖順的

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成bid + -able. bid here is 'tell someone to do something'. -able means 'can be…' or 'tending to…', so 'willing to be told'.

同家族的字

  • bidthe verb at the heart of it: to tell someone to do something ('do as you are bid')
  • unbiddenthe other face of the same bid: done or coming without being asked

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

biddableadj/ˈbɪdəbəl/

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    Docile, amenable or compliant.

    • She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.
    • The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.
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    bridgegamesSuitable for bidding.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。