Subordinate
[sə'bɔːdɪnət] or [sə'bɔdɪnet]
解释:
(noun.) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another.
(verb.) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; 'Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler'.
(verb.) rank or order as less important or consider of less value; 'Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools'.
(adj.) lower in rank or importance .
(adj.) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; 'a subordinate kingdom' .
校对:桑福德--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
(a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
(n.) One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
(v. t.) To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
(v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
阿玛莉亚整理
同义词及近义词:
a. Inferior, subservient, subject, ancillary, minor, secondary.
n. Inferior, dependant.
v. a. Subject, make subordinate, make subservient.
彻姬塔编辑
同义词及反义词:
[See SUBDUE]
伊莱录入
解释:
adj. lower in order rank nature power &c.: descending in a regular series.—n. one in a lower order or rank: an inferior.—v.t. to place in a lower order: to consider of less value: to make subject.—ns. Subor′dinacy Subor′dinance the state of being subordinate.—adv. Subor′dinately.—ns. Subor′dinateness; Subordinā′tion act of subordinating or placing in a lower order: state of being subordinate: inferiority of rank or position; Subordinā′tionism the doctrine of the inferiority of the second and third Persons of the Trinity to the first.—adj. Subor′dinātive tending to or expressing subordination.
录入:伦纳德
例句:
- Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- They are subordinate to the situation, therefore, not the situation to them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Golz was a good general and a fine soldier but they always kept him in a subordinate position and never gave him a free hand. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Again, of course no subordinate would have dared to do such a thing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- There never was a request made, that I am aware of, either of the flag-officer or any of his subordinates, that was not promptly complied with. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- And as certainly these habits of mind percolated down from them to their subordinates and to the general body of the population. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He was a large, austere man, and I judge difficult of approach to his subordinates. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The command of the advance of the pursuit was left to subordinates, whilst Thomas followed far behind. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- We have just pointed out the futility of trying to establish the aim of education--some one final aim which subordinates all others to itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Most of his alleged subordinates were in fact independent, and willing to make war on the king at the slightest provocation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It depends upon a unity of purpose to which details are subordinated, not upon presenting a multitude of disconnected details. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They really believed that the vast populations of eastern Asia could be permanently subordinated to such a Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They pursued schemes in which the welfare of Carthage was no doubt subordinated to the advantage of their own group. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And it is to this separate development that education coming from social contact is to be subordinated. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Our suspicion of the collectivist arrangement is aroused by the picture of a vast state machine so horribly well-regulated that human impulse is utterly subordinated. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- As conditions change, certain factors are subordinated, and others which had been of minor importance come to the front. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In what department of thought is imagination more strictly subordinated than in science? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In every machine the primary state of material has been modified by subordinating it to use for a purpose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
校对:桑福德