subservient

英 [səb'sɜːviənt] 美 [səb'sɜːrviənt]

• adj. 卑屈的；奉承的；次要的；从属的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. 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"
   

2. serving or acting as a means or aid;

   "instrumental in solving the crime"
   

3. 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"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. 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。
2. He's totally subservient to his boss.
   他对上司俯首帖耳。
3. He hated being subservient to this dean.
   处于比院长低一截的地位,实在让他厌恶。
4. 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

• Grotesquely humble and subservient, she falls in with every whim of Maata's.

  出自： C. Tomalin

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