词组 | obedient |
释义 | obedient When obedient is used with a preposition, it is to: • Van Heising stepped out, and, obedient to his gesture, we all advanced too —Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897 • Faces of others seem like stars Obedient to symmetrical laws. I stare at them as though into a glass—Stephen Spender, "The Human Situation," Ruins and Visions, 1942 • They [stories] are obedient not only to a genre ... but also to the ideas they wish to see prevail — Thomas Sutcliffe, Times Literary Supp., 2 Sept. 1983 |
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