deferential

英 [ˌdefəˈrenʃl] 美 [ˌdefəˈrenʃl]

adj.  恭敬的

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BNC.19002 / COCA.20111



柯林斯词典

  1. ADJ-GRADED 恭敬的
    Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
    1. They like five-star hotels and deferential treatment.
      他们喜欢五星级的宾馆和毕恭毕敬的接待。
    2. ...the traditional requirement for Asian women to be submissive and deferential to men.
      亚洲妇女要对男人顺从和恭敬的传统要求

双语例句

  1. They like five-star hotels and deferential treatment.
    他们喜欢五星级的宾馆和毕恭毕敬的接待。
  2. He offered to create Obama's ad campaign but became annoyed because Obama's strategist David Axelrod wasn't sufficiently deferential ( HuffPo)
    他曾主动请缨,为奥巴马创作竞选广告,但奥巴马的军师大卫•阿克塞尔罗德不太配合,这让乔布斯大为恼火。
  3. The movie did make some changes, of course: The real Lionel Logue was more deferential than Geoffrey Rush's character, and rather shorter than his movie counterpart.
    当然,影片《国王的演讲》确实也做了些改动,比如:真正的LionelLogue可要比GeoffreyRush在片中扮演的那个Logue医生恭敬些呢,而且他本人略显矮小些。
  4. The black-eyed was so softened by this deferential behavior, that she caught up little Miss Toodle who was running past, and took her to Banbury Cross immediately.
    这种表示敬意的态度使黑眼睛软化了,她把从身旁跑过去的图德尔小姑娘抱到膝盖上,立刻给她唱起到班伯里①十字架去旅行的歌曲。
  5. He knows that Americans openly tout their skills and accomplishments and are less deferential to potential employers.
    他也知道美国人会公开吹嘘自己的经验成就,并且不会对潜在的雇主毕恭毕敬。
  6. He manages to get his points across in a language that seems deferential yet does not drown out the truth. It is a linguistic skill he also employs in his movies, which makes it harder for people from other cultures to fully appreciate them.
    而他能够用恭顺的语言把自己真正想表达的内容蕴含其中,这也是他在电影中经常采用的语言技巧,这就让其他文化的人们更难欣赏他所拍的电影。
  7. I am deferential and respectful in the presence of artists.
    我一向恭敬、尊重艺术家。
  8. But they also want to immerse their children in a less deferential and didactic western education, says Philip Evans, headmaster at Bedford School for boys in Britain, whose intake is 14 per cent from overseas.
    但贝德福德学校(BedfordSchool)校长菲利普•埃文斯(PhilipEvans)称,他们也想让孩子在相对不是那么拘谨与说教的环境中接受西方教育的熏陶。该校有14%的学生来自海外。
  9. The premise for bank's deferential service is that there is enough business cooperators who could be persuaded into share interests with the bank's customers.
    银行实现差别服务的重要前提是争取足够多的合作商户,说服他们让利给银行的优质客户。
  10. The manner when accepting calling card must deferential, make the other side feels you are very interested in his calling card.
    接受名片时态度一定要恭敬,使对方感到你对他的名片很感爱好。
  11. I would like to thank you all for this great work and hope that our collaboration over the past seven years has been of a cordial, frank, constructive, temperate and deferential nature.
    我想对你们致以谢意,感谢你们的出色工作。七年以来,我们的合作一直是友善、坦诚、稳健、互敬和富有建设性的。
  12. The very word submit and the concept it stands for are a reversal of the deferential relationship we should expect out of interactive products.
    提交这个词和它所代表的概念,和软件应该扮演的恭顺角色相反。
  13. Fei Little Beard, his eyes still on the floor, replied with a string of deferential yeses.
    费小胡子恭恭敬敬接连答应了几个“是”,眼睛看在地下。
  14. Surely there are clients who are deferential, in awe of his reputation?
    肯定会有客户对他毕恭毕敬,十分崇拜他的名声吧?
  15. He did his homework, was seen more than he was heard and was deferential to veteran legislators.
    他做好自己的该做的事,对资深立法者颇为尊重;人们常常见到他到处忙碌,却很少听到关于他的新闻。
  16. The questions afterwards were deferential, technical.
    之后的提问对他充满敬意,非常专业。
  17. Forty years ago political parties could still count on a mostly deferential media.
    四十年以前,媒体大体上对政党还是恭顺的。
  18. The techniques it teaches are useful, though they could apply as much to non-aggressive men as to deferential women.
    课程讲授的技巧很实用,尽管它们对女性的作用可能也就像对不具有进攻性的男性那样。
  19. It also means showing deferential or submissive respect.
    表示低声下气的,顺服的表现出恭敬或谦卑的敬仰的。
  20. Biff has become an auto-detailer, and is now very deferential toward George.
    毕夫现在变成了擦车工,对乔治毕恭毕敬。
  21. The UK government needs to be "less deferential" towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have said.
    英国一组国会议员称,英国政府需要对美国“少一些恭敬”,要更多地勇于对其说不。
  22. Huawei had formerly maintained a fairly deferential tone in its dealings with the government.
    此前华为在与美国政府打交道时一直保持相当恭敬的语调。
  23. They were polite and deferential as always.
    他们始终是那么谦恭有礼。
  24. Showing an excessively deferential manner.
    表现出非常恭敬的举止。
  25. Nevertheless, when courts are asked to review administrative inaction, they are usually much more deferential than when affirmative acts are challenged.
    然而,当要求法院审查行政机关的不行动时,若和审查受到质疑的积极行为相比较,它们通常表示出更多的尊重之意。
  26. The channel heads took turns asking Putin a series of polite questions that ranged from deferential to obsequious.
    这些频道轮番询问普京一系列礼貌性的问题,从恭敬到谄媚。
  27. '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.
    这本名为《中国不高兴》的书是五位作者的文章合集,书中认为中国对对其抱有敌意的西方世界过于顺从。
  28. Results: 16 personality factors test shows that old people are more deferential and self-assured.
    应用卡氏16项人格因素测验进行人格特征的测查。
  29. The main achievements and methods in studying adaptive control, deferential geometric control used in the stability of wind energy conversion system, speed control system and maximum-power transfer are surveyed in this paper, and certain of problems remained to be solved are proposed simultaneously.
    本文综述了近年来自适应控制、微分几何控制在风能转换系统稳定、最大风能捕获及调速系统控制等方面应用研究的主要成果与方法,并提出若干需要解决的问题。
  30. Firstly the paper presents the basic theory of deferential GPS.
    首先介绍了差分GPS的基本理论;

英英释义

adj

  1. showing deference

      Synonym:    deferentregardful