Obsequious
[əb'siːkwɪəs] or [əb'sikwɪəs]
解释:
(adj.) attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; 'obsequious shop assistants' .
克雷格编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
(a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
(a.) Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
整理:尼古拉斯
同义词及近义词：
a. Fawning, sycophantic, cringing, servile, slavish, supple, meanly submissive.
伊莉斯校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Submissive, servile, deferential, cringing, sycophantic, flattering
ANT:Insubmissive, independent, arrogant, self_assertive, impudent
布兰奇手打
解释:
adj. compliant to excess: meanly condescending.—adv. Obsē′quiously.—n. Obsē′quiousness.
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例句:
- The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- HE, I promise, did not decline the obsequious invitation of the landlords to alight and refresh himself in the neat country towns. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Then, drawing his arm through that of the obsequious Mr. Crushton, Lord Mutanhed walked away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
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