complacency
complacency 英 [kəmˈpleɪsnsi] 美 [kəmˈplesənsi]
n. 自满；满足；自鸣得意
名词复数:complacencies
- The word complacency is often hurled, in a rather scornful manner, at people who are unwilling to be political. It connotes a sense of ease and contentment with the status quo.
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- n. 自满；满足；自鸣得意
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1. For now, though, its organising emotions are introspection and complacency.
尽管就目前而言，其组织情绪是内向和自满。
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2. We have come a long way in this country, and we cannot allow complacency or naiveté to prevent us from finishing the journey.
在我们这个国家，我们还有一段很长的路要走，我们不能允许自满或天真来阻止我们完成这段旅程。
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3. Yet all this betrays a dangerous complacency.
然而，这种自满是非常危险的。
- complacency (n.) "fact or state of being pleased with something or someone, especially oneself," 1640s, from same source as complacence but with the later form of the suffix (see -cy).
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