complacency
GRE,1
英[kəm'pleɪs(ə)nsɪ]
|美[kəm'plesnsi]
日语:自己満足
法语:complaisance
德语:Selbstzufriedenheit
韩语:안일함
俄语:complacencia
牛津词典
noun
- 自满;自得;自鸣得意
a feeling of satisfaction with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not think any change is necessary; the state of being complacent
- 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。
同、反义词
同义词:
n.
satisfaction,self-satisfaction,contentment,gratification,self-righteousness
双语例句
- She warned that there was no room for complacency on inflation.
她警告说对待通货膨胀不能有一丝的懈怠。
- Such complacency is costing the company dear.
这种自满情绪正使公司付出沉重代价。
- The team manager has been quick to clamp down on the merest hint of complacency.
球队主教练很快就消除了自满的小苗头。
- Mr Lowe warned against complacency.
洛先生告诫说不能自满。
- We should check our complacency and constantly criticize our shortcomings.
我们应该抑制自满,时时批评自己的缺点。
- Complacency is the enemy of learning.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。
- We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.
要认真学习一点儿东西,必须从不自满开始。
- With the state of affairs in the north so dangerous I see no reason for the government's complacency.
北方局势如此危险,我认为政府毫无理由沾沾自喜。
- Such success may have bred complacency.
这样的成绩可能已经酝酿了骄傲自满的情绪。
- This may lead to complacency and even arrogance.
这会导致自满,自满最终将变成可悲的自大。
- This is not a moment for complacency.
现在不是一个自满的时刻。
- I thought that our complacency had caught up with us.
我感到我们的自满情绪已使我们自食其果了。
- However, the financial crisis has shattered that sense of complacency.
然而,金融危机粉碎了这种满足感。
- For courage not complacency is our need today leadership not salesmanship.
因为,我们今天需要的,是勇气,而不是自满;是领导人,而不是推销员。
- But this is no time for complacency.
但是没有时间自鸣得意。
- But we must not let this confidence drift into complacency.
但是,我们不能让这种信心膨胀成自满。
- We must resist complacency.
我们必须抵制自满。
- Sooner or later, as Hyman Minsky warned, complacency breeds excess and crisis.
正如海曼明斯基(hymanminsky)所警告的那样,自鸣得意迟早都会滋生无度和危机。
- Call it, if you like, a problem of mutual complacency.
如果你高兴,可以把这称为共同自满的问题。
- However, years of macroeconomic stability and economic progress may have inspired complacency.
不过,多年的宏观经济稳定与经济进步,可能引发了自满情绪。
- That, in turn, has sowed complacency among investors and traders.
而这种做法进而导致了投资者和交易商的自满。
- This is not a time for complacency but pro activity in the unfolding of your own light.
这不是自满的时候,却是在你们自己光的扩展中(发展)能动性的时候了。
- There is too much complacency about a soft landing for the US economy, low inflation and geopolitical risk.
人们对美国经济软着陆、低通胀和地缘政治风险盲目自满。
- Some will say that noting this trend will only encourage complacency.
一些人会说,指出这一趋势只会鼓励人类的自满情绪。
- It comes with the price of smug complacency.
他会带来自满和沾沾自喜的后果。
- His unexpected failure has shaken his complacency.
出其不意的失败削弱了他的自满情绪。
- Charges of complacency have become entangled with those of corruption, questions of morality with legality.
骄傲自满的指控与腐败指控交织在了一起,而道德问题与法律问题相互纠缠。
- But it has caused a potentially dangerous complacency, some leaders said.
但也造成了潜在危险的自满情绪,有的领导说。
- We have made some achievements, and we must guard against complacency.
我们已取得一些成就,但要防止自满情绪。
- The realities of competition mean that complacency about patents and copyright could be fatal.
竞争的现实意味着,在专利权和版权问题上的自满心态可能是致命的。
语源
mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin complacentia, from Latin complacereto please