Subservient
[səb'sɜːvɪənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) compliant and obedient to authority; 'editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones'-G. B. Shaw .
戈代娃手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
巴兹尔錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Subordinate, inferior, subject.[2]. Useful, helpful, serviceable, conducive, subsidiary, ancillary, instrumental.
錄入:特德
同義詞及反義詞：
[See SUBDUE]
校對:蒂米
例句/造句/用法:
- I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It is a process of pride--I want to be proud--' 'Proud and subservient, proud and subservient, I know you,' he retorted dryly. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She could be very pleasant and flattering, almost subservient, to people she met. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In the olden days the wage of battle was almost universally decided by the strength of brawn, and the higher qualities of mind were subservient. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In the selection that he made from his sources can be traced, as in the wor k of Vitruvius and other Latin writers, the tendency to make the sciences subservient to the arts. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
校對:蒂米