剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - compliant collapse

compliant
/kəm'plɑɪ.ənt/
adjective
formal
* willing to do what other people want you to do
顺从的，听从的；服从的

1. a compliant child
听话的孩子

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - compliant collapse

compliant
1.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词服从的;顺从的;俯首帖耳的 If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.

【语域标签】：FORMAL 正式

  • She was much naughtier than her compliant brother.

    她哥哥很听话，她却调皮得多。

  • ...a docile and compliant workforce.

    驯顺的工人们

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - compliant collapse

compliant
com·pli·ant / kEm5plaiEnt / adjective1. (usually disapproving) too willing to agree with other people or to obey rules
   顺从的；百依百顺的；俯首帖耳的:
   By then, Henry seemed less compliant with his wife's wishes than he had one months before.
   与六个月以前相比,亨利当时对他妻子的意愿似乎已不那么百依百顺了。
   We should not be producing compliant students who do not dare to criticize.
   我们不应当把学生培养成不敢批评的唯唯诺诺的人。
2. in agreement with a set of rules
   (与系列规则相)符合的,一致的:
   computer software that is year 2000 compliant
   不受计算机 2000 年问题影响的软件
⇨ see also comply

牛津英语同义词学习词典 - compliant collapse

compliant adj.
⇨ passive

新牛津英语同义词词典 - compliant collapse

compliant

adjective
her compliant husband
ACQUIESCENT , amenable, biddable, tractable, complaisant, accommodating, cooperative, adaptable;
OBEDIENT , docile, manageable, malleable, pliable, pliant, flexible, submissive, dutiful, tame, meek, yielding, easily handled, like putty in one's hands, controllable, unresisting, unassertive, passive, governable, persuadable, manipulable; informal, dated milky; rare persuasible.
See AWKWARD SYNONYMS at obedient.
-opposite(s): RECALCITRANT, BLOODY-MINDED.

词源记忆 - compliant collapse

compliant
  1640s, from comply.