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subservient的英文翻译是什么意思,词典释义与在线翻译:
英英释义
Adjective:
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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"
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serving or acting as a means or aid;
"instrumental in solving the crime"
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abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
"slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"
"a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"
"she has become submissive and subservient"
subservient的用法和样例:
例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
- It was horrible to have to be affable and subservient
不得不强作欢颜卖弄风骚,真是太可怕了。 - He's totally subservient to his boss.
他对上司俯首帖耳。 - He hated being subservient to this dean.
处于比院长低一截的地位,实在让他厌恶。 - The needs of individuals were subservient to those of the group as a whole.
个人的需要服从于整个集体的需要。
经典引文
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Grotesquely humble and subservient, she falls in with every whim of Maata's.
出自: C. Tomalin
subservient的相关资料:
近反义词
【近义词】
- acquiescent 默许的
- compliant 适用的
- obedient 服从的
- conformable 一致的
- dependent 依靠的
- relative 相对的
- submissive 服从的
- docile 容易控制的
- deferential 恭敬的
- passive 被动的
- meek 温顺的
- servile 屈从的
- slavish 奴隶的
- implemental 器具的
- instrumental 仪器的