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/oʊˈbeɪ/ · /əʊˈbeɪ/
To do what a person in authority tells you to do, or to do what a law or a rule says you must do.
服從；遵守
過去式 obeyed過去分詞 obeyed-ing obeying三單 obeys
核心畫面
You can picture a voice that has the right to be listened to — a parent, an officer, a law — and you doing what it says instead of what you would have decided yourself. The heart of obey is that handover: the decision is no longer yours to make. It works the same whether the voice is a living person giving an order or a written rule sitting on a page.
可以想成有一個「說了算」的聲音——父母、長官、法律——你就照著它做，而不是照自己的判斷做。obey 的關鍵在那個交出…更多收起
可以想成有一個「說了算」的聲音——父母、長官、法律——你就照著它做，而不是照自己的判斷做。obey 的關鍵在那個交出去的動作：這件事的決定權已經不在你手上了。無論那個聲音是一個活人當場下命令，還是一條寫在紙上的規定，運作方式都一樣。原始詞典資料3 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。
obeyverb/əʊˈbeɪ/
- 1
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
- obey the rules
- obey your boss
- 2
To do as one is told.
- Soldiers are trained to obey.
- 3
obsoleteTo be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
- They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].
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。