| 词汇 | complacency |
| 释义 | complacencyWord family nouncomplacencecomplacencyadjectivecomplacentadverbcomplacently com·pla·cen·cy /kəmˈpleɪsənsi/ noun [uncountableU] PROUDa feeling of satisfaction with a situation or with what you have achieved, so that you stop trying to improve or change things – used to show disapproval 自满，自得〔含贬义〕 Doctors have warned against complacency in fighting common diseases. 医生警告说，治疗常见病不能一见好就掉以轻心。 Despite yesterday’s win, there is clearly no room for complacency if the team want to stay top of the league. 尽管这支球队昨天赢了，但要在联赛中独占鳌头，就不能骄傲自满。 Examples from the Corpus complacency• Compliance and complacency are the manifest behaviours associated with an infantile dependency culture.• The election victories had lulled many of our supporters into a dangerous complacency.• But his complacency was soon shaken.• Truth does far less harm than insular complacency.• The fast money lulled people into complacency.• Two groups may act to stop such complacency. no room for complacency• In the debate about the future of the Labour Party, there can be no room for complacency or morbid defeatism.• Although journalists have placed Bristol in the premier league, there is no room for complacency.• However, the findings of this study show there is no room for complacency.• There is no room for complacency even though 72 percent of parents in the survey rate primary schools as good or better.• The message has to be that there's no room for complacency.• Still, as they debated the plan on that Sunday night, Clinton and his circle saw no room for complacency.• The competition made us our own toughest critics-there was simply no room for complacency. |
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