amenable
/əˈmiːnəbl/adjective
1- open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled积极响应的; 易听从规劝的; 顺从的:
parents who have had easy babies and amenable children.
有容易带的婴儿和乖孩子的父母们。
1.1
- predic.
amenable to
(of a thing) capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible(事物)可接受作用的; 易受影响的: the patients had cardiac failure not amenable to medical treatment.
病人有不容易治疗的心脏衰竭。
派生词
amenability
nounamenably
adverb词源
late 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').