complacent
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How to pronounce complacent in British English:
英 [kəmˈpleɪsnt]
How to pronounce complacent in American English:
美 [kəmˈpleɪsnt]
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- Adjective:
- contented to a fault
单词词源
- complacent
- complacent: see complaisant
- complacent (adj.)
- 1650s, "pleasing," from Latin complacentem (nominative complacens) "pleasing," present participle of complacere "be very pleasing" (see complacence). Meaning "pleased with oneself" is from 1767. Related: Complacently.
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双语例句
- 1. Naval nuclearisation makes this analysis look recklessly complacent .
- 2. On the way up , macroeconomists were not wholly complacent .
- 3. Germany was battered by the dotcom bust ; that made france complacent .
- 4. Indian policymakers are not asking such a complacent question .
- 5. That is too complacent and too one-sided .