- 1自滿、安於現狀（帶責備）
Complacency is a feeling of being so satisfied with a situation — or with what you have already achieved — that you stop trying to improve or change things. English almost always uses it with a : teachers, coaches, and newspapers reach for it when a winning team gets lazy, or when a country stops watching a danger. It is not the same as being calm or content; content can be healthy. Complacency is the sleepy kind of pride. Though actually, the person who has it often does not feel they are doing anything wrong — that is the trap. You will hear “cannot afford complacency” as a warning, not a description of peace.
組成From Late Middle English complacence, from Late Latin complacentia (being very pleased). Related in history to French complaisance, but the English word you want here is this disapproving one.
同家族的字
- complacentthe adjective; this is the noun
- pleasesame Latin placēre, to please
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
complacencynoun/kəmˈpleɪsənˌsiː/
- 1
A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
- Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
- […] 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.
- 2
An instance of self-satisfaction.
- 3
Passivity as a result of contentment with the current situation.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。