complacent
adjective /kəmˈpleɪsnt/
/kəmˈpleɪsnt/
(usually disapproving)- too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling complacency
自满的；自鸣得意的；表现出自满的 - a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment
对失业增加抱满不在乎的危险态度 - complacent about somebody/something We must not become complacent about progress.
我们决不能因进步变得自满。
- Teachers are far from complacent about this problem.
老师们对这个问题绝非自满无忧。 - This view seems alarmingly complacent.
这种观点看起来太自以为是了，令人吃惊。 - Don't go getting too complacent before the exams.
考试前不要掉以轻心。 - Nobody can afford to be complacent about security.
对于安全问题谁也不能等闲视之。 - The council was criticized for its complacent attitude to child protection.
该委员会因其对儿童保护的自满态度而受到批评。 - The government is in danger of becoming complacent now inflation has dropped.
现在通货膨胀已经下降，政府有变得自满的危险。 - Then you realize you are tired and getting complacent.
然后你意识到你累了，变得自满。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- seem
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- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- about
词源mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘pleasant’): from Latin complacent- ‘pleasing’, from the verb complacere. - a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment