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单词

complacency

读音
kəmˈpleɪsnsi
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词根

Complacency 的词根是 "plac",来自拉丁语 "placere",意思是 "使高兴"。其他衍生自这个词根的单词举例:placid (平静的), implacable (不能和解的)。

释义

n. 自满;满足;自鸣得意 [ 复数 complacencies ]

例句

To show its effort to overcome complacency.
显示其克服自满情绪的努力。
Despite signs of an improvement in the economy, there is no room for complacency.
尽管在经济方面有改善的迹象,但仍不容自满。
Its report stated with a tinge of complacency that 95% of those who did not have their own income were receiving cash contributions from relations.
报告中略带沾沾自喜地说,95%没有自己收入的人都从亲戚那里得到了现金捐助。

强化记忆

为了记住 "Complacency",你可以把它和 "Place" 这个词联想起来,然后想象一个因为找到了一个满意的地方感到十分自鸣得意的人,这就是 complacency。Complacency这个词起源于16世纪的拉丁文,原意是“使满足”。现在这个词在英语中多用于形容人对当前情况过分的满意而忽视了潜在的危险或者问题。

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the media look elsewhere, the world looks elsewhere.Complacency always a risk.And the other risk, of course, is when you've been working so hard for so long,
But at the same time,I want to caution against complacency.So, so long as we are not complacent,
Not just Greece, the Eurozone.To move away from the complacencyand the constant denial that there was a massive --
two other big threats come in to join the virus.The first of those is complacency,the risk that as this disease curve starts to bend,
And I believe that's for four reasons.I believe, number one, it's complacency.Because those who aspire to democratic culture
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