- 1諂媚的、巴結的（就是拍馬屁，不是普通有禮貌）
If someone is obsequious, they try much too hard to please people who have power — smiling too much, agreeing too fast, laughing at jokes that are not funny. Polite is fine; obsequious is a criticism. It says the person has given up their own dignity to follow someone stronger. You hear it about staff around a boss, people around a king, or a shop that fawns on rich customers. It is fairly formal. In casual talk you would more often say someone is sucking up. The Latin pieces are ob (“towards”) + sequor (“follow”): you are following so closely you almost walk in the person’s steps. It is not the same word as (a funeral), even though the spellings sit next to each other.
組成From Latin obsequiōsus, from obsequium (“compliance”), from ob (“towards”) + sequor (“follow”). English kept the disapproving sense.
同家族的字
- sequelsame Latin sequor, “to follow” — a sequel follows the first story
- subsequentalso from sequor — what follows later
- obsequiouslythe adverb
- obsequiousnessthe noun for this quality
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。
obsequiousadj/əbˈsiːkwi.əs/
- 1
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
- Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Lord John and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.
- Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
- 2
archaicObedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
- Our ladies were situated as well as it was possible; they had good servants, splendid rooms, obsequious attendants, and had become habituated to the country, so that the loss of the Count was not any thing of moment beyond the pleasure of his society;[…]
- 3
obsoleteOf or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
- […] the ſuruiuer bound / In filliall obligation for ſome tearme To doe obſequious ſorrowe […]
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