He even saw him sometimes actually engaged in writing them, pen in hand. But he was sure anybody would far rather sit and chatter with him, or hear him play a valse on the piano, or a bit of the "Boheme," than bend over a table all by himself. And Artois always welcomed him. He liked him. But it was not only that which made him complaisant. Doro was a type, and a singularly perfect one. Now Artois laid down his pen, and pulled forward an arm-chair opposite to the sofa. "Mon Dieu, Doro!英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Fragment #83 -- Tzetzes, Schol. in Exeg. Iliad. 126: `...Ileus whom the lord Apollo, son of Zeus, loved. And he named him by his name, because he found a nymph complaisant (53) and was joined with her in sweet love, on that day when Poseidon and Apollo raised high the wall of the well-built city.'英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
His date is c. 230 A.D. (52) There is a fancied connection between LAAS (`stone') and LAOS (`people'). The reference is to the stones which Deucalion and Pyrrha transformed into men and women after the Flood. (53) Eustathius identifies Ileus with Oileus, father of Aias. Here again is fanciful etymology, ILEUS being similar to ILEOS (complaisant, gracious). (54) Imitated by Vergil, "Aeneid" vii. 808, describing Camilla.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
"Ho, mita koda!" (welcome, friend!) was Smoky Day's greeting, as I entered his lodge on the third day. "I hope you did not dream of a watery combat with the Ojib- ways, after the history I repeated to you yesterday," the old sage continued, with a complaisant smile playing upon his face.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence to other people's, preserve dignity.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1749》
Abbe Guasco, a friend of mine, will come to you as soon as he knows of your arrival at Paris; he is well received in the best companies there, and will introduce you to them. He will be desirous to do you any service he can; he is active and curious, and can give you information upon most things. He is a sort of 'complaisant' of the President Montesquieu, to whom you have a letter.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1750》