【complacency】 - SAT备考词汇

complacency

UK:  [kəm'pleɪs(ə)nsi]

US:  [kəm'pleɪs(ə)nsi]

n.

1.满足,(特指)骄傲自满,自得

1 . Japanese executives raise the matter to decry corporate complacency.
日本的执行官们提及了对公司自满的谴责。

2 . Men in turn have felt threatened by the emerging Amazon women who no longer seem to need them and they may slip into a form of complacency.
随着亚马逊女人（她们看似不再需要男性）的出现，男性受到的威胁感与越来越强，长此以往他们将沦落成鸡肋。

3 . The lurking dangers stored up in complacency during the Premier League's world-conquering boom have finally broken to the surface.
在英超征服世界的沾沾自喜中所潜藏的隐患终于浮出了水面。

4 . It is bad enough when trade talks break up in acrimony; how much worse that the Geneva gathering petered out amid complacency and apathy.
贸易谈判在激烈言词中破裂就足够糟糕了，日内瓦会谈在心安理得和冷漠中结束又会更差到哪里去呢？

5 . But I'm here today to say that difficulty is no excuse for complacency. Unease is no excuse for inaction.
不过，今天我在这里要说的是，困难并不是安于现状的借口，不安也不是无为的借口。