deferential

deferential，英語單詞，主要用作形容詞，作形容詞時譯為“恭敬的；慣於順從的”。

基本介紹

• 外文名：deferential
• 詞性：形容詞
• 英式發音：[ˌdefəˈrenʃl]
• 美式發音：[ˌdefəˈrenʃl]
• 釋義：恭敬的；慣於順從的

單詞釋義

英 [ˌdefəˈrenʃ(ə)l] 美 [ˌdefəˈrenʃ(ə)l]

adj. 恭敬的；慣於順從的

單詞用法

柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典

deferential /ˌdɛfəˈrɛnʃəl/

1.ADJ Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful toward someone else. 謙恭的 [oft ADJ 'to' n]

2.deferentially ADV

短語搭配

Extremely deferential 畢恭畢敬 ; 必恭必敬

Using of Deferential Language 敬語的使用 ; 敬語的運用

deferential language 敬語

deferential plexus [解剖] 輸精管叢

deferential meaning 區別性意義

deferential artery [解剖] 輸精管動脈

deferential treatment 禮遇

Deferential duct 輸精管道

deferential to 尊重

雙語例句

• The use of deferential language is symbolic of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which dominates conservative gender norms in Japan. 使用恭敬的語言是儒家理想女性的象徵，在日本保守的性別規範中占主導地位。
• They like five-star hotels and deferential treatment. 他們喜歡五星級酒店和謙恭的禮遇。
• This step may sound overly deferential, but it's a smart way to give the powerful person psychological safety and control. 這一步聽起來可能過於順從，但這是給強勢者心理安全感和控制力的聰明方法。
• He is deferential to his superiors. 他對他的長官是恭敬的。
• Showing an excessively deferential manner. 表現出非常恭敬的舉止。
• Strange. As old as I am, I still feel deferential to you. 真奇特，即使像我這么老了，我還是覺得該對你恭敬。
• She is always extremely deferential to anyone in authority. 他對他的長官是恭敬的。
• She is always extremely deferential to anyone in authority. 她對任何權威人士總是必恭必敬。
• The old idea of being deferential and accepting what you are told has gone. 那種順從和接受的思想已經消失了。
• For the royal weddings of the past, the celebratory crockery and linen in shops was starchy and deferential. 過去的皇家婚禮，商家裡慶祝的陶器和亞麻布是古板而恭敬的。
• His tone was perceived as insufficiently deferential; afterward, Miscavige demanded to know why Haggis had been invited. 他的語氣被認為不夠恭順；後來密斯凱維吉要求了解為什麼會邀請哈吉斯來。
• What Confucius said couldn't dissuade Yanhui yet. He went on saying, "I will be upright inside and deferential outside." 顏回要去衛國的決心並沒有因為老師這一席話而打消。
• They are using fewer of the very deferential "women's" forms, and even using the few strong forms that are known as "men's." 她們更少使用非常恭順的女性用語，甚至使用少量強硬的男性用語。
• One of the movement's central messages is self-respect-pentecostals are "dynamite in the hands of God" rather than deferential servants. 該運動的一個主要啟示就是自尊——五旬節派信徒是“上帝手中的妙物”，而非恭順的僕人。
• The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change — of social change and of linguistic change. 年輕日本女性使用越來越少的敬語毫無疑問是社會變化和語言變化的標誌。
• He offered to create Obama's AD campaign but became annoyed because Obama's strategist David Axelrod wasn't sufficiently deferential (HuffPo). 他曾主動請纓，為歐巴馬創作競選廣告，但歐巴馬的軍師大衛·阿克塞爾羅德不太配合，這讓賈伯斯大為惱火。
• 'Unhappy China' is a collection of essays by five authors who argue that China has been too deferential to a Western world that is hostile toward it. 這本名為《中國不高興》的書是五位作者的文章合集，書中認為中國對對其抱有敵意的西方世界過於順從。
• It is possible and necessary for the bank to provide its customers with integrated deferential services which is provided by itself and concerned business services. 銀行有必要也有可能將自身及相關商戶所能夠提供的差別服務整合起來提供給客戶。
• Defensive, deferential and discreet, Fitzgerald included in "the Habit of Being" none of the letters Flannery wrote to her mother in her brief, healthy time up north. 戒備、恭敬和審慎，菲茨傑拉德在《生存的習慣》這本書簡集中包含的書信沒有一封是弗蘭納里在北上簡短而健康的時間寫給母親的。
• In many multinational companies, employees are not necessarily deferential to the wishes of their superiors. Instead, they have the right to make Suggestions to a plan. 在很多跨國公司里，員工不必定只是服從上級的意思，相背，他們有權力對籌劃發起公道的定見。
• As someone who came up through the ranks of the often hidebound and highly deferential corporate world, I am glad to say good riddance to much of the old office culture. 作為從往往守舊並對上高度恭敬的企業界爬上來的人，我很高興地終於可以向許多陳舊的辦公室文化說再見了。
• Gradually, and with little help from Rome, the American church is becoming better attuned to a flock that has become less deferential and less inclined to take things on trust. 逐漸的，在沒有得到羅馬幫助的情況下，美國教會正在逐漸協調合那些越來越不尊重教會、不信任教會的教民的關係。
• The Chinese part of the firm, beset by deeply hierarchical and deferential behaviour, needs to get people to talk more openly to each other—even if that means confronting a superior. 聯想在中國國內受困於根深蒂固的層級觀念與服從上級的行為模式，這裡需要廣開言路，即使這意味著頂撞上級。
• In contrast to Microsoft a decade ago, whose executives would rarely hide their disdain for regulators, Mr. Wagner speaks of his former colleagues at the Justice Department in deferential tones. 現在提起自己在法務部的前同事們，Wagner顯得十分的謙遜，這與10年前微軟毫不掩飾自己對法律人員的鄙視之情形成了鮮明的對比。
• Several of the men interviewed say that the fighters were extremely deferential to the apparent leader on site, a portly, bespectacled man who was referred to as either the "sheikh" or the "doctor". 一些接受採訪的人說，這些戰士對現場的一位顯然是領導的人極為恭敬，他們稱這個身村魅梧的戴眼鏡男子為“酋長”或“醫生”。