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

• Indeed, some employers seem to be more amenable to this than in the past.
  事实上，一些雇用方好像比以前更容易接受这样的机制。
• He seemed most amenable to my idea.
  他似乎对我的想法十分佩服。
• We are amenable to discipline.
  我们有遵守纪律的义务。
• People in power are amenable to you.
  有权之人会顺从你。
• The had three very amenable children.
  他们有三个很听话的孩子。
• This example is typical of a general class of systems which are amenable to analysis by graph theory means.
  这个例子适于用图论方法进行分析的一般类型的系统的典型。
• Graff was not so amenable to vision and ideals as usual.
  格拉夫不像往常那样顺从远见和理想。
• 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。
• Some bin packing problems are NP-complete but are amenable to dynamic programming solutions or to approximately optimal heuristic solutions.
  某些装箱问题是NP完全的，但可以通过动态规划法或近似最优的启发式解法来解决。
• 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。