too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling complacency 自满的;自鸣得意的;表现出自满的 a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment 对失业增加抱满不在乎的危险态度 - complacent about somebody/something
We must not become complacent about progress. 我们决不能因进步变得自满。
Extra ExamplesTeachers are far from complacent about this problem. 老师们对这个问题绝非自满无忧。 This view seems alarmingly complacent. 这种观点看起来太自以为是了,令人吃惊。 Don't go getting too complacent before the exams. 考试前不要掉以轻心。 Nobody can afford to be complacent about security. 对于安全问题谁也不能等闲视之。 The council was criticized for its complacent attitude to child protection. 该委员会因其对儿童保护的自满态度而受到批评。 The government is in danger of becoming complacent now inflation has dropped. 现在通货膨胀已经下降,政府有变得自满的危险。 Then you realize you are tired and getting complacent. 然后你意识到你累了,变得自满。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
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Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘pleasant’): from Latin complacent- ‘pleasing’, from the verb complacere.