complaisant

英 [k?m'ple?z(?)nt] 美

GRE

名詞:?complaisance;

complaisant 順從的

com-, 強(qiáng)調(diào)。-plac, 滿意，詞源同please, placate.原指使自己滿意的，后指使別人滿意的，順從的。注意詞義與complacent的差別。

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."

1. She was an old - fashioned wife, entirely complaisant to her husband's will.: 她是位舊式的妻子, 對(duì)丈夫百依百順.

4. A good servant should be complaisant but not servile.: 一個(gè)好的仆人應(yīng)該是殷勤的,而不是卑屈的.

5. The courtier obeyed the king's orders in a complaisant manner.: 在朝臣服從國(guó)王的命令,在殷勤的方式進(jìn)行.