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 obey [ә'bei]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 服从, 遵从, 顺从

vi. 服从

[法] 服从, 顺从, 遵奉




    obey
    [ verb ]
    be obedient to
    <verb.social>


    Obey \O*bey"\, v. i.
    To give obedience.

    Will he obey when one commands? --Tennyson.

    Note: By some old writers obey was used, as in the French
    idiom, with the preposition to.

    His servants ye are, to whom ye obey. --Rom. vi.
    16.

    He commanded the trumpets to sound: to which the
    two brave knights obeying, they performed their
    courses. --Sir. P.
    Sidney.


    Obey \O*bey"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obeyed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Obeying}.] [OE. obeyen, F. ob['e]ir, fr. L. obedire,
    oboedire; ob (see Ob-) + audire to hear. See {Audible}, and
    cf. {Obeisance}.]
    1. To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield
    submission to; to comply with the orders of.

    Children, obey your parents in the Lord. --Eph. vi.
    1.

    Was she the God, that her thou didst obey? --Milton.

    2. To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.

    My will obeyed his will. --Chaucer.

    Afric and India shall his power obey. --Dryden.

    3. To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a
    ship obeys her helm.

    1. Some of their play has been beyond the conventions we obey and I feel sad about the damage they have done to rugby's image.
    2. We teach people to drive well, and to observe speed limits, but that doesn't mean we always obey them.
    3. Russian Social Democrats meeting in Moscow in early May spent much of their time debating whether local chapters would have to obey central authority.
    4. To prevent a recurrence last year, Palm Springs distributed 45,000 pamphlets to local schools and colleges warning that visitors were expected to obey the law.
    5. The only sound basis for press law is to require that journalists obey the law of the land - without privilege and without discrimination. Recent events suggest that the laws on trespass and telephone bugging contain serious gaps.
    6. The Army communique said Peri also was charged with "failure to obey the lawful regulations that require him to get permission to travel to the German Democratic Republic."
    7. Like most successful Wall Street people, Donald T. Regan was raised to think that if you work hard, make a lot of money and obey the rules, everything will work out just fine.
    8. A lawsuit seeking to force Citibank to obey Iowa consumer credit laws potentially could affect other companies that, like Citibank, offer credit cards in Iowa but base their card operations elsewhere, the state's attorney general says.
    9. Donna Russell says she was "called by the Lord" to open her expensive lakefront house to the homeless, but neighbors say even God's servants must obey man's laws.
    10. UMW Local 5179 leaders ordered workers to return to their jobs at Old Ben Coal Co.'s No. 1 mine near Spurgeon, Ind., during a meeting Friday, but local president Jim Griffith said he was unsure whether workers would obey the order.
    11. The General Assembly in 1974 suspended South Africa's participation and voting in the assembly because it refused to obey the world body's calls to abolish apartheid.
    12. Americans will be urged to drive more fuel-efficient cars and obey speed limits when the federal government starts its first energy-conservation advertising campaign in more than a decade.
    13. The NGK says its members should obey the authorities and supports the government in maintaining law and order.
    14. In separate judgments, Potter ordered both companies again to obey the laws and warned that McGee Brothers would be fined $10,000 and Wendell's Woodwork $5,000 for each day the companies remain in contempt of his order.
    15. He also said the sentences would remain suspended so long as they hold jobs and obey the law.
    16. And Minister of Defense Veljko Kadijevic flatly refused to obey the demand for his resignation expressed by his own head of government, Mr. Markovic.
    17. After the ceremony she says goodbye on a street corner, reminding him of his promise to obey and tells him to return to his hotel room.
    18. In Philadelphia, a transport union official said members would obey an injunction against a sympathy strike in the city.
    19. "Some laws I obey and some I don't" said Watson Rembert. "I still smoke but I just don't do it in front of the police.
    20. She was acquitted of failing to obey an officer. All the charges were misdemeanors.
    21. The purpose of this letter is not to repeat the case of the tiny democracy against the dictatorships and theocracies bent on empire and on Holocaust II; it is to appeal to the journalism profession to obey its own published ethics.
    22. "Clients listen to their lawyers, but they obey their accountants," observes Pittsford, N.Y., money manager Geoffrey Rosenberger.
    23. He merely commands "take off your clothes," and women joyfully obey.
    24. Civil defense spokewoman Sonia Hadid said Monday that many poor people, who perch homes on the steep hillsides that jut up through this city of 5.6 million, were refusing to obey orders to abandon their shacks.
    25. It was Dixon who ordered Morgan, a 42-year-old plastic surgeon, jailed for 25 months for civil contempt of court for failing to obey his order to reveal the whereabouts of Hilary Foretich, now 7.
    26. Ten years ago: The Iranian militants holding the American hostages told a hastily called news conference they would only obey the orders of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
    27. Despite being called a Soviet autonomous region, the enclave is supposed to obey the Azerbaijani government in Baku.
    28. Clearly, a major factor was the opposition of the Russian people, led by their president, Boris Yeltsin, as well as the refusal of certain army and KGB units to obey orders.
    29. In Huancayo, 140 miles east of Lima, armed Shining Path guerrillas forced employees of two radio stations Wednesday to broadcast messages calling on people to obey a three-day strike beginning Nov. 12.
    30. A new element of uncertainty is whether Contra field commanders would obey the new leaders and abide by a peace agreement.
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