(of people )人 easy to control; willing to be influenced by somebody/something 顺从的;顺服的 They had three very amenable children. 他们有三个很听话的孩子。 The manager was very amenable: nothing was too much trouble. 那位经理很顺从,不会有什么大问题。 - amenable to something
He seemed most amenable to my idea. 他似乎对我言听计从。 You should find him amenable to reasonable arguments. 你会发现他容易接受合理的观点。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
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- amenable to something (formal)
that you can treat in a particular way 可用某种方式处理的
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener ‘bring to’ from a- (from Latin ad) ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from late Latin minare ‘drive animals’, from Latin minari ‘threaten’).