complacent
complacent
[kəmˈpleɪs(ə)nt]
adjective
complacently
adverb
语源
[kəmˈpleɪs(ə)nt]
adjective
- showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements
自满的，沾沾自喜的；满足的
you can't afford to be complacent about security.
你还不能对安全掉以轻心。
complacently
adverb
语源
- mid 17th cent. (in the sense 'pleasant'): from Latin complacent- 'pleasing', from the verb complacere
- Complacent and complaisant are two words which are similar in pronunciation and which both come from the Latin verb complacere ‘to please’, but which in English do not mean the same thing. Complacent is the commoner word and means ‘smug and self-satisfied’. Complaisant, on the other hand, means ‘willing to please’, as in the local people proved complaisant and cordialWriters occasinoally use complaisant when they mean complacent: just under half of the citations for complaisant in the British National Corpus exhibit this confusion
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