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If someone is self-satisfied, they are too pleased with themselves and with what they have done. The word is not a compliment. A self-satisfied person may smile as if they have already won, talk as if no one else could have done it, or stop trying because they think they are finished. Though actually, people sometimes look self-satisfied without meaning to — a quiet proud face can be read as smug. In writing, though, self-satisfied almost always asks you to dislike the pride a little. It is close to smug, and it describes a person, a smile, a tone, or a look.
自滿的、洋洋得意的(貶義)
組成From self- + satisfied: satisfied with yourself, too much.
同家族的字
- self-satisfactionthe noun for this too-pleased feeling
- satisfiedpleased enough — this one is often fine and fair
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。
self-satisfiedadj
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Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
- He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
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。