常用短语

参考例句

1. The air-conditioning had been adjusted in deference to an urgent plea.

   根据一项紧急请求调整了空气调节器。

2. His patronage, entwined with the ordinary deference , was not plain to them.

   由于还需要表现出通常的尊敬态度，他那恩赐的态度对他们也就不很明显了。

3. Children are taught to treat their parents and teachers with deference ?

   教育孩子们对父母师长要尊敬。

4. The major defect of their work was deference to authority.

   他们的主要缺陷是趋从权威。

5. They were married in church out of deference to their parents' wishes.

   他们遵从父母的愿望在教堂举行了婚礼。

6. They were married in church, in deference to their parents' wishes.

   他们遵从父母的意愿,在教堂结婚。

7. At first he had continued to show deference to Brown.

   起初他对布朗仍然表示一定的尊敬。

8. We no longer pay a seemly deference to our superiors.

   我们对长者再没有一点点推崇。

9. "If you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the stranger with deference .

   那个陌生人顺从地说：“琼斯先生，你要这样说我没有意见。”

10. And Americans do swing from aggressive overpraise of their literature to anequally unfortunate, imitative deference .

    而且美国人却从过分夸耀自己的文学，又不幸转为百依百顺的模仿。

同义词

• complaisance
• compliance
• compliancy
• obligingness
• respect
• respectfulness