complacency
[kəm'pleisnsi]
n. 自满, 沾沾自喜
例句与用法:
He had an air of complacency.
他脸上显出得意的神气。
It's my conviction (ie I firmly believe) that complacency is at the root of our troubles.
我深信自满情绪是我们各种问题的根源。
Ideas of inertia and complacency are both wrong.
无所作为和骄傲自满的论点都是错误的。
词形变化:
动词过去式: comped | 动词过去分词: comped | 动词现在分词: comping | 动词第三人称单数: comps |
n.
满足; 自满
complacency
名词复数:complacencies
词形变化:
动词过去式: comped | 动词过去分词: comped | 动词现在分词: comping | 动词第三人称单数: comps |
词义辨析:
同义参见:
conceit
content1
complacency[kəm'pleisənsi]n.1.■自鸣得意,洋洋自得;自满情绪,心满意足 [亦作 complacence]变形n.complacencies
(亦作 complacence)
noun
- [mass noun]a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements
(对自己或自己的成就)自满,沾沾自喜;满足
the figures are better, but there are no grounds for complacency.
算术有进步,但没有理由自满。
- mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin complacentia, from Latin complacere 'to please'
complacency
名词 complacency:
the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
complacency
■Though Evra started 22 games in the Premier League last term, and was first choice when fit, the French full-back will not allow complacency to creep into his make-up.
"埃夫拉坚持他是不会看轻他在曼联的位置的。虽然埃夫拉上个赛季与曼联踢了22场球赛,如果不受伤就肯定会首发,但这名法国籍后卫并不感到自满。
■"There is a good feeling in the team, but not one of complacency.
“车队上下都感觉很好,但没有人满足于现状。
■As Barclays Capital, a British investment bank, neatly puts it: "The entire asset class of bonds is characterised by symptoms of overvaluation and complacency.
一家英国投资银行,巴克莱资本公司巧妙地说:“债券这整个的资产种类都表现为价值高估和没有意识到风险的自满状态。”
■Of course my complacency could hardly get start enough to lift my nose a trifle into the air.
不用说,我刚刚能稍微扬眉吐气。
■Decry complacency.
不要自满。
■The shocks of secularism, immigration and rival faiths have already shaken up the complacency of Anglicanism in peculiar ways.One day Britain might have its own version of Senator Brownback.
不过随着世俗主义,外来移民,信仰挑战这些入侵,英国国教桃源世外般的心态在某种程度上正逐渐动摇着。
■No, it isn't. And the complacency now setting in over the state of the economy is both foolish and dangerous.
不,现在还不到时间。目前在经济状况方面设定的沾沾自喜情绪不但是愚蠢的,而且也非常危险。
■Loss of humility can wreck our judgment.Smug complacency can put a roadblock in front of our progress.
丧失谦逊,会危害我们的判断力;自以为是,可以让我们前进时栽跟斗。
■Loss of humility can wreck our judgement. Smug complacency can put a roadblock in front of our progress.
丧失谦逊,会危害我们的判断力;自以为是,会阻碍我们前进。
■As if to secure U.S. complacency on controversial textbook changes, U.S. actions in Iraq have been sanitized by Japanese textbook committees that, for instance, whited out "unilateral" from a recent text.
为了让美国安心,广受争议的日本教科书有关美国在伊拉克的行动也作了修改,日本教科书委员会对内容进行了净化,例如,“单边行动”便从最近一次修改中一笔勾销。
■Motivated by independent assertiveness, the subject breaks free from monolithism and complacency to embrace the collective vision of his or her society.
主体以其独立坚决的气魄,击溃偏狭、自满,建立集体意志的理想社会。
■Joe Cole says there is no room for complacency against Estonia on Saturday.
乔科尔说:“对于星期六同爱沙尼亚的比赛不可自满。”
■When complacency crops up, people do not hesitate to talk out.
产生骄傲自满情绪时,大家都毫不犹豫地指出来。
■There is too much complacency about a soft landing for the US economy, low inflation and geopolitical risk.
人们对美国经济软着陆、低通胀和地缘政治风险盲目自满。
■PEOPLE love to mock the middle class.Its narrow-mindedness, complacency and conformism are the mother lode of material for sitcom writers and novelists.
人们都喜欢揶揄中产,中产的狭窄心胸,胸无大志,唯唯诺诺都是坐而论道的写手和小说家创作源泉。
■Alan Hansen believes Liverpool must steer clear of complacency when they take on Burnley at Anfield today.
今天利物浦主场面对伯恩利,阿兰-汉森相信利物浦再也不会自鸣得意。
■Today we're all playing the price for our complacency.
今天我们要为高傲自满付出昂贵的代价。
■Its narrow-mindedness, complacency and conformism are the mother lode of material for sitcom writers and novelists.
他们目光短浅、自命不凡、因循守旧的形象,总是为喜剧作家和小说家们提供着无穷无尽的笑料。
■He's all bottoned up in an impenetrable little coat of complacency.
他把自己牢牢关在小小的令人费解的自我陶醉外衣之中。
■He 's all bottoned up in an impenetrable little coat of complacency .
他把自己牢牢关在水泄不通的、小小的自我陶醉外衣之中。
■His specialty was lulling the opposing point guard into a sense of complacency, then lunging for steals with lightning-fast precision.
他最擅长于让与之对位的球员失去警惕,然后闪电般的出手盗球。
■His shyness, which was so painful as a defect, filling him with a mild complacency now that it was regarded as an interesting study.
他的腼腆是一种使他痛心疾首的缺点,而现在被当成了一个有趣的,值得探讨的问题,这使他的心里充满了淡淡的满足感。
■He had an air of complacency.
他脸上显出得意的神气。
■He said the financial sector is returning to normalcy, but warned normalcy must not lead to complacency.
他说财政部正在回到正轨,并警告说虽然回到正轨但严禁骄傲自满。
■His early success as a writer led to complacency and arrogance.
他这个作家早年得志便自鸣得意,不可一世。
■There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
他那副专心致志的劲头看上去有点可怜,似乎他那种自负的态度,虽然比往日还突出,但对他来说已经很不够了。
■Israel's problem lay not in the pace of our resupply but in the complacency induced by the memory of great victories.
以色列的难题不在于我们进行再补给的速度,而在于它沉湎于昔日的伟大胜利。
■Elizabeth looked archly, and turned away. Her resistance had not injured her with the gentleman, and he was thinking of her with some complacency, when thus accosted by Miss Bingley.
伊丽莎白笑盈盈地瞟了一眼就转身走开了。她的拒绝并没有使达西觉得难过。达西正在相当高兴地想念着她,恰巧彬格莱小姐走过来招呼他
■But it has caused a potentially dangerous complacency, some leaders said.
但也造成了潜在危险的自满情绪,有的领导说。
■Do not let complacency set in.
但切勿因为达到目标就感到自满。
■But what will puncture that complacency?
但是什么会刺破那个自满呢?
■But soon the traveller from Paris is shocked by a certain look of self-satisfaction and complacency mingled with an indefinable hint of narrow-mindedness and lack of imagination.
但是从巴黎来的游人很快就会对他那种浅薄狭隘、乏想象力、满和自得的神态,产生反感。
■But analysts note that much of the loss of support happened among the majority Malay Muslims who voiced their anger at the coalition, accusing it of complacency and corruption.
但是分析人士提出,国民阵线这次主要是失去了主要民族马来族穆斯林的支持,这些人对联合阵线感到气愤,说该阵线骄傲自满,贪污腐败。
■But analysts say the lacklustre performance of the parliamentary opposition had lulled the government into a sense of complacency and they had underestimated popular discontent.
但是分析人士说,议会反对派的平淡表现使政府产生了自满情绪,低估了民众的不满。
■But there's a real risk that all the talk of green shoots and glimmers will breed a dangerous complacency.
但是现实的危险是,所有有关复苏迹象及希望之光的言论可能导致产生危险的自满情绪。
■But we must not let this confidence drift into complacency.
但是,我们不能让这种信心膨胀成自满。
■But owing to complacency and smugness, almost no one worried about it.
但由于自以为是,沾沾自喜,美军几乎无人对情报匮乏有所担忧。
■But there is no cause for complacency.
但这并不是自满的理由。
■However, as the post-crisis recovery gathered pace, it induced complacency.
但随着危机后的复苏步伐加快,自满现象出现了。
■But we have been given solemn resp**ibilities, and we must meet them.We must resist complacency.
你也许会不同意我所做出的一些决定,但我希望你能理解我是愿意采取这些措施的。
■You have made good progress in teaching and researching but you should guard against complacency.
你的教学科研取得了长足的进步,但不应因此而自满。
■There is in your complacency no foreknowledge of death nor even of separation.
你自得其乐,对生离死别都无先见之明。
■The fact that there are still many millions of children dying every year leaves no room for complacency, says UNICEF Executive Director Anne Veneman.
儿童基金会的执行董事安妮.维尼曼说,每年仍有数百万儿童处于死亡边缘,这个事实让人们没有理由感到满足。
■The company has had a good year but we must guard against complacency.
公司获得了一个好年头,我们务必防止沾沾自喜。
■To avoid controversy, many economists choose to remain silent and while away in their complacency.
出于避免争议的考虑,经济学家们大多选择了逃避。
■Liverpool are favourites to beat the Hungarian champions but Benitez is wary of any complacency creeping in.
利物浦是击败匈牙利冠军的热门,但是贝尼特斯认为球员们应该提防高傲自满。
■So far so good was the general consensus back in the Liverpool dressing room but in his half-time team talk Paisley warned his team against complacency.
到目前为止好是普遍的共识回到利物浦更衣室,但在他的一半时间谈论球队佩斯利警告对他的球队自满。
■With the state of affairs in the North so dangerous I see no reason for the government's complacency.
北方局势如此危险,我认为政府毫无理由沾沾自喜。
■"Infectious diseases will continue to emerge," the Institute of Medicine declares in a new report, warning that complacency and inaction could lead to a "catastrophic storm" of contagion.
医疗学会在一份新的报告中宣称“传染病将会继续出现,”该报告还警告说,安于现状和无动于衷将会导致传染病的“灾难性风暴”。
■Only by guarding against conceit and complacency and continuing to learn tirelessly can you go on making outstanding contributions to the great People's Republic of China and thus live up to your names.
只有决不骄傲自满并且继续不疲倦地学习,才能够对于伟大的中华人民共和国继续作出优异的贡献,并从而继续保持你们的光荣称号。