a·me·na·ble
adjective/əˈmiːnəbl/
/əˈmiːnəbl/, /əˈmenəbl/
- (of people) easy to control; willing to be influenced by somebody/something
顺从的；顺服的 - They had three very amenable children.
他们有三个很听话的孩子。 - The manager was very amenable: nothing was too much trouble.
那位经理很顺从，不会有什么大问题。 - amenable to something He seemed most amenable to my idea.
他似乎对我言听计从。 - You should find him amenable to reasonable arguments.
你会发现他容易接受合理的观点。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
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- highly
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- to
- They had three very amenable children.
- amenable to something (formal) that you can treat in a particular way
可用某种方式处理的 - ‘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。
- ‘Hamlet’ is the least amenable of all Shakespeare's plays to being summarized.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener ‘bring to’ from a- (from Latin ad) ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from late Latin minare ‘drive animals’, from Latin minari ‘threaten’).