subservient

英 [səbˈsɜːviənt]

美 [səbˈsɜːrviənt]

adj.  恭顺的; 驯服的; 谄媚的; 卑躬屈膝的; 次要; 从属于

Collins.1 / BNC.19471 / COCA.21667

牛津词典

adj.

• 恭顺的；驯服的；谄媚的；卑躬屈膝的
  too willing to obey other people
  1. The press was accused of being subservient to the government.
     有人指责新闻界一味迎合政府的旨意。
• 次要；从属于
  less important than sth else
  1. 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。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 屈从的;恭顺的;顺从的
  If you aresubservient, you do whatever someone wants you to do.
  1. She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.
     她被要求对叔叔恭敬顺从。
• ADJ 次要的;从属于…的
  If you treat one thing assubservient toanother, you treat it as less important than the other thing.
  1. The woman's needs are seen as subservient to the group interest.
     妇女的需求被认为要服从团体的利益。

双语例句

• They should see themselves as aliens, as exiles, and yet they should see themselves as properly subservient, honorable, well behaved exiles in a Roman context.
  他们应该把自己当做入境者，寄居者，并应该把自己看做是，适当屈从的和可敬的，行为良好的在罗马的寄居者。
• He hated heing subservient to this dean.
  处于比院长低一截的地位，实在让他厌恶。
• In the first Critique the imagination is subservient to the categories in its ordering of the sense data.
  在《第一批判》中，想像力屈从于范畴排秩感性资料的力量之下。
• Experience is subservient to knowledge.
  经验有助于知识（的增进）。
• "How are you feeling now, sir?" he asked, with the subservient smirk.
  现在，你觉得怎么样了，先生？他含着谄媚的假笑问。
• The middle class is weak and ineffectual and tends to become dependent on and subservient to the ruling class.
  中产阶级软弱无能，趋向依赖和屈服于统治阶级。
• The woman's needs are seen as subservient to the group interest.
  妇女的需求被认为要服从团体的利益。
• She has become submissive and subservient.
  她变得谦让恭顺，唯命是从。
• There is nothing in life which harasses and annoys that may not become subservient to the highest ends.
  要记得你生活上困恼和烦扰，没有一点是徒然的。
• Hong Kongers are today far more openly critical of their government and resentful of its subservient attitude to Beijing, than they ever were of their colonial rulers.
  与对其殖民统治者相比，今天的香港人对政府的批评要公开得多，对香港政府屈从于北京的态度也更加不满。