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complacency

/kuhm-pley-suhn-see/US // kəmˈpleɪ sən si //UK // (kəmˈpleɪsənsɪ) //

自满,自满情绪,自鸣得意,自满症

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·pla·cen·cies.

    • : a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
    • : Archaic. friendly civility; inclination to please; complaisance.a civil act.

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Examples

  • League officials and leaders of the NFL Players Association say those still playing must guard against complacency.

  • Although deepfakes haven’t yet become the weapons of mass disinformation that some predicted, there’s no room for complacency.

  • Constraints challenge teams to think divergently and avoid complacency in the ideation process.

  • There’s a clear cultural complacency with things as usual, and although disappointing, that’s not particularly surprising in a field where the vast majority just don’t understand the stakes.

  • As the pandemic wears on, experts worry that complacency and fatigue could further fracture an already uneven response to the disease.

  • In one sentence, he asserts: “Panic is worse than complacency.”

  • A psychiatrist who attended one such conference blamed television for the complacency.

  • But judging by our complacency, you would be forgiven for not knowing this.

  • They went out of their way to tell me how such programs “breed” complacency, laziness, and—wait for it—dependency.

  • This is a film that takes apart your complacency as surely as this alien world destroys Thomas Newton.

  • But with the immaculate conception of Mary, a being full of grace, an object of God's supreme complacency entered this world.

  • It hardly ruffled the calm stream of his self-complacency, and, for some reasons, he was rather glad that it had happened.

  • It fell, and you were made to look with complacency on objects which not long since you would have regarded with horror.

  • Then, in the givers and in their gifts, in the workers and in their work, the Divine heart finds infinite complacency.

  • Maitland regained his old self-complacency in time and was dreadfully mysterious and Maitlandish about the whole affair.