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单词
complaisant
释义
complaisance
com‧plai‧sance
/
kəmˈpleɪz
ə
ns
/
noun
[uncountable]
formal
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
complaisance
Origin:
1600-1700
French
complaire
‘to do what someone wants’
, from
Latin
complacere
;
➔
COMPLACENT
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
If consensus breeds academic
complaisance
, chaos does the opposite.
There was a sort of uneasy
complaisance
in their relationship now.
willingness to do what pleases other people
—
complaisant
adjective
—
complaisantly
adverb
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