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compliance n.依从,顺从 Plywood helps illustrate the "pli" in compliance, because if you've ever stepped on a piece of plywood stretched across something, you've felt how it gives underneath your feet. It has flexibility. Compliance means being flexible or yielding and giving in to a situation or order. "Pliant" is part of the word compliance, and it means yielding. Agreeing or bending to something like a plan, rule, or direction is compliance. ★☆☆☆☆ 2007.4

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[kəm'plaiəns] Compliance is what you do when you try to fit standards set down by someone else. A restaurant chef's compliance with a new sugar-free menu might inspire even the pastry chefs to follow the recipes. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them – especially in America – the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]遵守；服从；听从 Compliance with something, for example a law, treaty, or agreement means doing what you are required or expected to do.   [oft N with n]  [FORMAL 正式]Inspectors were sent to visit nuclear sites and verify compliance with the treaty...监督员被派去视察核武器基地并核实条约的遵守情况。The company says it is in full compliance with US labor laws...这家公司说自己严格遵守美国的各项劳工法。The Security Council aim to ensure compliance by all sides, once an agreement is signed.一旦签署协议，安理会的目标就是保证各方都要遵守。

英语单词	compliance
英美音标	[kəm'plaiəns]
中文释义	n.依从,顺从
vocab简明	Compliance is what you do when you try to fit standards set down by someone else. A restaurant chef's compliance with a new sugar-free menu might inspire even the pastry chefs to follow the recipes.
vocab扩展	Plywood helps illustrate the "pli" in compliance, because if you've ever stepped on a piece of plywood stretched across something, you've felt how it gives underneath your feet. It has flexibility. Compliance means being flexible or yielding and giving in to a situation or order. "Pliant" is part of the word compliance, and it means yielding. Agreeing or bending to something like a plan, rule, or direction is compliance.
真题原句	Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them – especially in America – the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity.
柯林斯星级	★☆☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]遵守；服从；听从 Compliance with something, for example a law, treaty, or agreement means doing what you are required or expected to do. [oft N with n] [FORMAL 正式] Inspectors were sent to visit nuclear sites and verify compliance with the treaty... 监督员被派去视察核武器基地并核实条约的遵守情况。 The company says it is in full compliance with US labor laws... 这家公司说自己严格遵守美国的各项劳工法。 The Security Council aim to ensure compliance by all sides, once an agreement is signed. 一旦签署协议，安理会的目标就是保证各方都要遵守。
来源	2007.4

Compliance Means Plywood Agreement Kəm'plaiəns N.依从,顺从 Fit Standards