Slavish
['sleɪvɪʃ] or ['slevɪʃ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; 'slavish devotion to her job ruled her life'; 'a slavish yes-man to the party bosses'- S.H.Adams; 'she has become submissive and subservient' .
(adj.) blindly imitative; 'a slavish copy of the original' .
弗朗西丝編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.
埃德蒙手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Servile, low, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, sneaking, beggarly, base-minded, low-minded.[2]. Drudging, laborious, menial.
整理:辛克莱
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Servile, drudging, {[merual]?}, mean, base, abject
ANT:Independent, free, voluntary
編輯:帕特里克
例句/造句/用法:
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He may be careless and proud; but when was he ever mean or slavish? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I too was awe-struck; being, however, under no pressure of slavish terror, my thoughts and observations were free. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I have done with slavish fear of disaster. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And being uneducated he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish, breeding in his soul. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- All slavish terrors of embarrassment have left me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
編輯:帕特里克