Menial
['miːnɪəl] or ['minjəl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
(n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.
(n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
(n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
道格拉斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Servile, slavish, low, mean, base, abject, vile, sorry.
n. Servant, domestic, waiter, lackey, underling, flunkey, understrapper, valet, footman, slave, Helot, serf, bondsman.
海伦娜編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Domestic, attendant, dependent, servile, drudge
ANT:Paramount, sovereign, supreme, lordly, independent, uncontrolled, autocratic
校對:伦道夫
解釋/意思:
adj. of or pertaining to a train of servants: doing servile work: low.—n. a domestic servant: one performing servile work: a person of servile disposition.
手打:肖恩
例句/造句/用法:
- I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Means are menial, the serviceable is servile. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The labour of menial servants does not continue the existence of the fund which maintains and employs them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Secondly, it seems, on this account, altogether improper to consider artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, in the same light as menial servants. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- That oriental menial had a wretched life under the tyranny of Jos Sedley. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They are only servants who work without doors, as menial servants work within. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the maintenance of a menial servant never is restored. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers; he grows poor by maintaining a multitude or menial servants. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This deep-toned inquiry was cast forth into the night, for response from the menial in question. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Next (to clear the ground before coming to business), you've placed in this yard a skulking, a sneaking, and a sniffing, menial. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a menial, who announced that a monk demanded admittance at the postern gate. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Those menials having obeyed the mandate, Edward Dorrit, Esquire, proceeded. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Raymond gave her his ring to ensure the respect of the menials. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Youths, nobles of the land, performed for the sake of mother or sister, the services of menials with amiable cheerfulness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When, however, social pride and luxurious city life became the dominant passions, agriculture was left to menials, and the art gradually faded with the State. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I don't want menials. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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