amenable

英 [əˈmiːnəbl]

美 [əˈmiːnəbl]

adj.  顺从的; 顺服的; 可用某种方式处理的

TOEFLGRETEM4TEM8法律

BNC.11453 / COCA.15693

牛津词典

adj.

• 顺从的；顺服的
  easy to control; willing to be influenced by sb/sth
  1. They had three very amenable children.
     他们有三个很听话的孩子。
  2. He seemed most amenable to my idea.
     他似乎对我言听计从。
• 可用某种方式处理的
  that you can treat in a particular way
  1. ‘Hamlet’ is the least amenable of all Shakespeare's plays to being summarized.
     在莎士比亚所有的戏剧中，《哈姆雷特》最难概括。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 顺从的；服从的
  If you areamenable tosomething, you are willing to do it or accept it.
  1. The Jordanian leader seemed amenable to attending a conference...
     约旦领导人似乎愿意参加会议。
  2. I never had a long-term relationship as I wasn't good enough, or interesting or amenable enough.
     因为我不够优秀，不够有趣或者不够亲切，所以恋爱关系从来都维持不长。

英英释义

adj

• disposed or willing to comply
  1. someone amenable to persuasion
  Synonym:conformable
• liable to answer to a higher authority
  1. the president is amenable to the constitutional court
• open to being acted upon in a certain way
  1. an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death
  2. the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
• readily reacting to suggestions and influences
  1. a responsive student
  Synonym:tractable

双语例句

• He seemed most amenable to my idea.
  他似乎对我的想法十分佩服。
• Requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery.
  需要药物治疗或者可以用药物治疗，特别是与外科相对。
• Just half of the patients are found to have a source and this is not always amenable to surgery.
  仅有一半的患者可以找到出血灶并且这些人可不是每一个都同意手术治疗的。
• His scientific discoveries are amenable to the laws of physics.
  他在科学上的发现经得起物理定律的检验。
• I never had a long-term relationship as I wasn't good enough, or interesting or amenable enough.
  因为我不够优秀，不够有趣或者不够亲切，所以恋爱关系从来都维持不长。
• We are all amenable to discipline.
  我们都应当遵守纪律。
• He was amenable to some of the things that we were trying to do.
  他愿意做我们想做的某些事情。
• I hoped he would be more amenable to reason now.
  我曾希望现在他比较通情达理。
• We are all amenable to the law.
  我们全都是对这法律负责的。
• The people's army keeps very good discipline. We are amenable to discipline.
  人民的军队很守纪律。我们有遵守纪律的义务。