obey /oˈbe, ə-/
 (vt.)服從,遵從,順從(vi.)服從


 O·bey v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obeyed p. pr. & vb. n. Obeying.]
 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.


 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.

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 obey
      v : be obedient to [ant: disobey]