complaisant

• adj. 彬彬有礼的；顺从的；殷勤的

com-, 强调。-plac, 满意，词源同please, placate.原指使自己满意的，后指使别人满意的，顺从的。注意词义与complacent的差别。

1. showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others;

"to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"

"the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"

complaisant

complaisant: [17] Complaisant and complacent [17] are virtual doublets. Both come from Latin complacēre ‘please greatly’ (a compound verb formed from placēre, source of English please), but they reached English along different routes. Complaisant came via French, from complaisant, the present participle of complaire ‘gratify’, but complacent was a direct borrowing from the Latin present participle. It originally meant simply ‘pleasant, delightful’, and did not take on its present derogatory connotations (at first expressed by the now obsolete complacential) until the mid 18th century.
=> complacent, please

complaisant (adj.)

1640s, from French complaisant (16c.), in Middle French, "pleasing," present participle of complaire "acquiesce to please," from Latin complacere "be very pleasing" (see complacent, with which it overlapped till mid-19c.). Possibly influenced in French by Old French plaire "gratify."

...his pretty and complaisant wife.

他漂亮又温顺的妻子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She's always helpful and complaisant.

她总是又殷勤,又乐于助人.

《简明英汉词典》

A good servant should be complaisant but not servile.

一个好的仆人应该是殷勤的,而不是卑屈的.

期刊摘选

It is necessary that we should be more than complaisant to the count.

我们对伯爵在礼貌上就应该更殷勤一些.

期刊摘选

The courtier obeyed the king's orders in a complaisant manner.

在朝臣服从国王的命令,在殷勤的方式进行.

期刊摘选

He is complaisant to her.

他对她百依百顺.

期刊摘选

He has a pretty and complaisant wife.

他有个漂亮又温顺的妻子

辞典例句