obsequious

英 [əb'siːkwɪəs] 美 [əb'sikwɪəs]

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※ 提供单词"obsequious"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

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。

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.).

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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。

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.

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.