late 15c., "prompt to serve," from Middle French obséquieux (15c.), from Latin obsequiosus "compliant, obedient," from obsequium "compliance, dutiful service," from obsequi "to accommodate oneself to the will of another," from ob "after" (see ob-) + sequi "to follow" (see sequel). Pejorative sense of "fawning, sycophantic" had emerged by 1590s. Related: Obsequiously; obsequiousness (mid-15c.).
雙語例句
1. Barrow was positively obsequious to me until he learnt that I too was the son of a labouring man.
巴羅竭力討好我，直到得知我也是工人家庭出身。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He looked at the two ladies with an obsequious air.
他看著兩位太太,滿臉諂媚的神情.
來自辭典例句
3. The landladies paid court to her, in the obsequious way landladies have.
女店主們以她們特有的諂媚方式向她獻殷勤.
來自辭典例句
4. Chandler's weasel face screwed into an obsequious smile.