| 单词 | obey |
| 释义 | obey transitive verb 1. < obey one's parents > < obeying a superior's order > 2. a. < the fiercest rebel against society … obeys most of its conventions — H.J.Muller > < obeyed his sense of justice even when it ran counter to his own interests — E.M.Violette > b. < the ship obeyed the helm > < concluded that by analogy electrical force also obeyed the inverse square law — S.F.Mason > intransitive verb 1. obsolete < obeyed to the king's command > 2. < a people gentle, submissive, prompt to obey — Agnes Repplier > Synonyms: < obey one's father > < obey orders > It may suggest lack of questioning or attempting independent judgment < hear and obey > < the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion — Charles Dickens > obey is wider in application than mind or comply since it may be used in reference to laws, principles, moral forces, abstractions < what obeys reason, is free — John Milton > < obey at all costs the call of what was felt as truth — Havelock Ellis > As a synonym for obey mind is likely to be used in connection with children or juniors; it often suggests admonition to an inferior, ward, or charge < mind your mother > < children refusing to mind their teachers > comply may suggest a yielding or giving in to another's wishes or orders or to rules or requirements, perhaps through complaisance or lack of strong opinion < should you think ill of that person for complying … without waiting to be argued into it — Jane Austen > < on being invited by the brute to go outside, what could he do but comply — Arnold Bennett > |
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