obsequious

• adj.お世辞を言う；媚びる；従順な

ラテン語のobsequium「従う」、奉仕の義務を果たす、ob-「前へ」「向かって」、-sequi「従う」が語源で、語源的にはsequenceと同じである。

obsequious

obsequious: see sequence

obsequious (adj.)

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.).

1. Barrow was positively obsequious to me until he learnt that I too was the son of a labouring man.

バロは私が労働者の家庭出身であることを知るまで私のご機嫌を取ろうとした。

2.He looked at the two ladies with an obsequious air.

彼は2人の奥さんを見て、媚びた顔をしていた。

3.The landladies paid court to her，in the obsequious way landladies have.

女性店主たちは彼女たち特有のおべっかを使って彼女たちに親切にしている。

4.Chandler 's weasel face screwed into an obsequious smile.

チャンドラーイタチのような顔に媚び笑いを浮かべた。

5.He is obsequious to men in power.

彼は有力者に媚びている.