PROUDpleased with a situation, especially something you have achieved, so that you stop trying to improve or change things – used to show disapproval 自满的,得意的〔含贬义〕
There’s a danger of becoming complacent if you win a few games.
赢了几场比赛可能就会变得沾沾自喜。
a complacent attitude towards the problem
对问题满不在乎的态度
complacent about
We simply cannot afford to be complacent about the future of our car industry.
我们完全没有资格对汽车业的前景沾沾自喜。
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complacent• We've been winning, but we're not going to get complacent.• As long as the presence of doubt is detected anywhere, neither faith nor knowledge can ever be complacent.• But people do it; then things blow up; then people are careful for a while; then people get complacent.• I would have been insufferably snobbish and complacent.• The 4-0 Vikings had one this week to allow WarrenMoon to tell all his young teammates not to get complacent.• He said that we have become complacent about child labour, and that the situation is much worse than it appears.• Happy but not complacent - our aim must be 100% Good to Excellent.• She can cook for hours and feel almost complacent, she says.
complacent about• The nation cannot become complacent about the quality of our schools.
Origincomplacent
(1600-1700)Latin present participle of complacere“to please greatly”, from com- ( → COM-) + placere“to please”
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤appear, be, seem, sound顯得沾沾自喜;洋洋得意;好像自鳴得意;聽起來自滿▸➤become, get, grow變得洋洋得意;漸漸變得沾沾自喜ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常自滿▸➤remarkably極其自滿▸➤far from絕非自滿◇Teachers are far from complacent about this problem.老師們對這個問題絕非自滿無憂。➤alarmingly, dangerously令人擔憂地自鳴得意;自滿得有危險◇This view seems alarmingly complacent.這種觀點看起來太自以為是了,令人吃驚。PREPOSITION➤about對⋯沾沾自喜◇It is vital that we do not get complacent about this disease.至關重要的是我們對這種疾病絕不能掉以輕心。