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。
• 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.
  那些与富人利益作对的表达他们观点的编辑和记者被开除了并被那些屈从的人所取代－g.b.肖。
• 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。
• The best CFOs have a close, mutually respectful, but not subservient relationship with the chief executive.
  最优秀的首席财务官应与首席执行官保持一种亲密、互相尊重、但不谄媚的关系。
• 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。
• Although it continued to be taught in European universities, it was seen as subservient to the study of Natural, Metaphysical and Moral Philosophy.
  虽然它仍然是欧洲的大学教授，它被认为是屈从于研究自然，形而上学和道德哲学。
• All other considerations are subservient to the need for quick profit.
  所有其他的考虑都有服从于快速获利的需要。
• 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。
• 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。
• This model is used when QA is, for lack of a better term, subservient to development.
  说得难听一点，当QA完全“服从”开发人员时，可以使用该模式。