Subordinate
[sə'bɔːdɪnət] or [sə'bɔdɪnet]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
校對:桑福德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Inferior, subservient, subject, ancillary, minor, secondary.
n. Inferior, dependant.
v. a. Subject, make subordinate, make subservient.
彻姬塔編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See SUBDUE]
伊莱錄入
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:伦纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 世紀發明.
- They are subordinate to the situation, therefore, not the situation to them. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Again, of course no subordinate would have dared to do such a thing. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- 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·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was a large, austere man, and I judge difficult of approach to his subordinates. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The command of the advance of the pursuit was left to subordinates, whilst Thomas followed far behind. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Most of his alleged subordinates were in fact independent, and willing to make war on the king at the slightest provocation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It depends upon a unity of purpose to which details are subordinated, not upon presenting a multitude of disconnected details. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- They really believed that the vast populations of eastern Asia could be permanently subordinated to such a Europe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They pursued schemes in which the welfare of Carthage was no doubt subordinated to the advantage of their own group. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And it is to this separate development that education coming from social contact is to be subordinated. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As conditions change, certain factors are subordinated, and others which had been of minor importance come to the front. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In what department of thought is imagination more strictly subordinated than in science? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In every machine the primary state of material has been modified by subordinating it to use for a purpose. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
校對:桑福德