Servile
['sɜːvaɪl] or ['sɝvɪl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; 'spoke in a servile tone'; 'the incurably servile housekeeper'; 'servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work' .
(adj.) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants; 'Brown's attempt at servile insurrection'; 'the servile wars of Sicily'; 'servile work' .
吉莉安手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
(a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
(a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
(a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
(n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
編輯:特伦斯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Dependent, menial, held in bondage, held in slavery, held in subjection.[2]. Slavish, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, low, beggarly, sneaking, base-minded, low-minded, meanly submissive.
校對:玛吉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Obsequious, cringing, sequacious, menial, sneaking, low, abject
ANT:Independent, fractions, refractory, recalcitrant, dogged, stubborn, defiant,rebellious
黛尔編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to a slave or servant: slavish: meanly submissive: cringing: obedient: (gram.) secondary or subordinate.—n. a slave a menial.—adv. Ser′vilely.—ns. Ser′vilism the spirit of a servile class; Servil′ity (obs. Ser′vileness) state or quality of being servile: slavery: obsequiousness; Ser′ving-maid a female domestic servant; Ser′ving-man a male servant: a professed lover.—adj. Ser′vious obsequious.—ns. Ser′vīte one of a mendicant order of monks and nuns founded in Italy in the 13th century; Servit′ium (law) service; Ser′vitor one who serves: a servant: a follower or adherent: a male servant a menial: soldier: formerly in Oxford an undergraduate partly supported by the college his duty to wait on the fellows and gentlemen commoners at table; Ser′vitorship the office or condition of a servitor; Ser′vitūde state of being a slave: slavery: state of slavish dependence: menial service: compulsory servitude: (law) a burden affecting land or other heritable subjects by which the proprietor is either restrained from the full use of his property or is obliged to suffer another to do certain acts upon it: service rendered in the army or navy: (obs.) servants collectively; Ser′vitūre (Milt.) servants collectively.—v.i. Ser′vulate.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They had little originality, and speedily became servile copyists, so that Palissy ware for a time lost the high place it had held. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new prosperity, saying, May I? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It seems as inevitable that voyaging should make men free in their minds as that settlement within a narrow horizon should make men timid and servile. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Means are menial, the serviceable is servile. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Not a servile one—these Hands will never do that! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- What a launch in life I think it now, on looking back, to be so mean and servile to a man of such parts and pretensions! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Shall I bow my head before them, and with servile gesture sell my nobility for life? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I shall vote for the appointment of Mr. Tyke, but I should not have known, if Mr. Hackbutt hadn't hinted it, that I was a Servile Crawler. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I did not, however, aim at gaining his favour by paying any servile respect to him, but after some time took this other method. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- She also is dressed with great neatness, and her white, delicate hands betray very little acquaintance with servile toil. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Lawyer Lightwood,' ducking at him with a servile air, 'I am a man as gets my living, and as seeks to get my living, by the sweat of my brow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Without any doubt socialism has within it the germs of that great bureaucratic tyranny which Chesterton and Belloc have named the Servile State. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Our economic conditions still relegate many men to a servile status. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Are you impatient at what you perhaps consider his _servile_ position? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Yes, sir, returns Mr. Smallweed, very servile to the lawyer's wealth and influence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
手打:撒迪厄斯