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

• I'm always amenable to suggestions.
  我总是听从别人的建议。
• 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。
• This makes your system more amenable to failover.
  这样做可以使您的系统更经得起故障转移。
• Those two are not amenable to anything I can say.
  我不管怎样说，那两个也是不买帐的。
• The Jordanian leader seemed amenable to attending a conference
  约旦领导人似乎愿意参加会议。
• Negotiate an interest rate that is amenable to you and your friends.
  协商一个适合你和你朋友的利率。
• 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。
• People in power are amenable to you.
  有权之人会顺从你。
• I hoped he would be more amenable to reason now.
  我曾希望现在他比较通情达理。
• 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。