Indulgent
发音:[ɪnˈdʌldʒ(ə)nt]
例句:

  1. If we say some parents are indulgent, we mean they cave to every desire their child expresses.
  2. He gives me the indulgent smile of an adult hearing an outrageous claim from a child.
  3. she was perhaps a bit too indulgent with her children, who always seemed to get away with everything.
  4. I had not considered us to be particularly pushy or indulgent parents; mostly, I wanted my children to grow up to be financially independent and live lives of nothing worse than common unhappiness. 

解释:

  1. Indulgent这个单词为形容词,其表示“characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone”这一含义,即“(过度)仁慈的/宽容的/纵容的/迁就的”,与lenient/favorable构成近义词近义词。

  2. 具体使用场景如下:

  • indulgent parents risk spoiling their children.(放纵的父母极有可能会自己的宠坏孩子。)
    –News
  • When the children are young and need rational guidance, the parents are indulgent.(当孩子年幼,需要理性引导时,父母是纵容的。)
    –Psychology
  • Ms Chua is admirably blunt, describing the other parents at the schools her children attend as “weak-willed and indulgent” .(蔡女士直言不讳,形容她孩子就读的学校的其他家长“意志薄弱,放纵”。)
    –News

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