喜樂美語
  1. 1vB2/oʊˈbeɪ/ · /əʊˈbeɪ/服從；遵守

    To do what a person in authority tells you to do, or to do what a law or a rule says you must do.

    示範例句 · Example

    “Sit!” Leo said, and his puppy obeyed him at once.

    逐字「坐下！」里歐說，然後他的小狗立刻服從了他。

    obey 一個字蓋住中文的兩件事：對人是「服從」（obey your coach、the dog obeyed him），對規定是「遵守」（obey the law、obey the rules）。可以想成這兩件事是同一個畫面——有人或有規定發出一句話，你就照著做。要注意它的語氣：obey 用在「對方有權力這樣要求你」的場合，朋友之間照著別人的話做，英文更常說 do what somebody says。

    常見搭配

    • obey the rules

      遵守規定

      to do what a set of rules says you must do

      Players who obey the rules make the game fun for everyone.

    • obey the law

      遵守法律

      to do what the law of a country says you must do

      Citizens are asked to obey the law, and to help change it if they think it is unfair.

    • obey an order / obey a command

      服從命令

      to do the thing that someone in charge has told you to do

      Sam taught his dog to obey three simple commands.

    • obey instructions

      照著指示做

      to do exactly what you have been told to do, step by step

      On the school trip, we had to obey the guide's instructions and stay together.

    • refuse to obey

      拒絕服從

      to say clearly that you will not do what you have been told

      Many people thought the old rule was unfair, and refused to obey it.

    意思相近

    followcomplyabide byobserveheedkeep to

core核心畫面

You can picture a voice that has the right to be listened to — a parent, an officer, a law — and you doing what it says instead of what you would have decided yourself. The heart of obey is that handover: the decision is no longer yours to make. It works the same whether the voice is a living person giving an order or a written rule sitting on a page.

可以想成有一個「說了算」的聲音——父母、長官、法律——你就照著它做，而不是照自己的判斷做。obey 的關鍵在那個交出去的動作：這件事的決定權已經不在你手上了。無論那個聲音是一個活人當場下命令，還是一條寫在紙上的規定，運作方式都一樣。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

過去式 obeyed過去分詞 obeyed-ing obeying三單 obeys

意思相近

followcomplyabide byobserveheedkeep to

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

obeyverb/əʊˈbeɪ/

  • 1

    To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.

    • obey the rules
    • obey your boss
  • 2

    To do as one is told.

    • Soldiers are trained to obey.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

    • They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。