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When you do something complaisantly, you do it in a way that is meant to please other people: you agree, you give way, you make yourself easy to be with. You might nod complaisantly, smile complaisantly, or go along complaisantly with a plan you did not choose. Like , this adverb is formal and a little old-fashioned; you will find it in writing more than in speech. It can sound warm (kind, helpful) or a bit weak (too ready to please). It is not complacently. Complacently is the “I’m already fine, so I stop trying” adverb, and it . Complaisantly is the “I’ll do what you like” adverb. Same-looking family, opposite social direction.
殷勤地、討好地(文雅;不是「自滿地」)
組成complaisant(樂於討好別人的)+ -ly(變成副詞)。
同家族的字
- complaisantthe adjective this adverb is built from
- complaisancethe noun for that willingness to please
原始詞典資料1 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。
complaisantlyadv
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In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。