obsequious怎么读
音标：英 [əb'siːkwɪəs]
美[əb'sikwɪəs]
obsequious是什么意思
- adj. 谄媚的；奉承的；顺从的
obsequious的词态变化
副词: obsequiously;名词: obsequiousness;
中文词源
obsequious 巴结的，讨好的
来自拉丁语obsequium,顺从，履行服务职责，来自ob-,向前，朝向，-sequi,跟随，词源同sequence.原为跟班，跟随，后引申词义巴结的，讨好的。
英文词源
- obsequious
- obsequious: see sequence
- obsequious (adj.)
- late 15c., "prompt to serve," from Middle French obséquieux (15c.), from Latin obsequiosus "compliant, obedient," from obsequium "compliance, dutiful service," from obsequi "to accommodate oneself to the will of another," from ob "after" (see ob-) + sequi "to follow" (see sequel). Pejorative sense of "fawning, sycophantic" had emerged by 1590s. Related: Obsequiously; obsequiousness (mid-15c.).
obsequious的双语例句
- 1. Barrow was positively obsequious to me until he learnt that I too was the son of a labouring man.
- 巴罗竭力讨好我，直到得知我也是工人家庭出身。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He looked at the two ladies with an obsequious air.
- 他看着两位太太,满脸谄媚的神情.
来自辞典例句
- 3. The landladies paid court to her, in the obsequious way landladies have.
- 女店主们以她们特有的谄媚方式向她献殷勤.
来自辞典例句
- 4. Chandler's weasel face screwed into an obsequious smile.
- 钱德勒黄鼠狼似的脸上现出了谄媚的笑容.
来自辞典例句
- 5. He is obsequious to men in power.
- 他对有权势者谄媚.
来自辞典例句
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