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单词 resignedly
释义
resignedre‧signed /rɪˈzaɪnd/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • "Oh well," she said with a resigned look in her eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It is too easy to become resigned to what we feel to be inevitable.
  • It was just lying on its poor back with its legs stuck up and a dreadfully resigned look on its dear face!
  • Their replies also revealed resigned attitudes - washing of the hands for whatever brutalities were taking place.
  • There didn't look much wrong with the hedgehog but it had a sad, resigned sort of a face.
  • Tourists navigated with resigned expressions: this was Holiday and at least you could understand the lingo.
  • You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity and give up the struggle to maintain your own interests and identity.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Sam was resigned to the fact that he would never be promoted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· They demanded that he resigned.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • BAshley, cynical beyond her 10 years, is resigned to more disappointment.
  • Even the players are resigned to the prospect of starting their Premier League campaign without him.
  • He is resigned to public indifference to the benefits of efficiency, as well as to the effects of greenhouse gases.
  • He was resigned to his own fate.
  • Most women are resigned to this and some use their martyrdom to manipulate their men.
  • Opponents of the bill said they are resigned to its passage in the House.
  • She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it.
  • They are resigned to this battle.
1be resigned to (doing) something to calmly accept a situation that is bad, but cannot be changed:  She’s resigned to spending Christmas on her own. Sam was resigned to the fact that he would never be promoted.2a resigned look, voice etc shows that you are making yourself accept something that you do not like:  ‘We’ll have to leave,’ she said with a resigned sigh.resignedly /rɪˈzaɪnɪdli/ adverb
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