参考词典中subservient的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 有帮助的,有用的,奉承的
词形变化
- 名 词:sub·ser'vi·ence, sub·ser'vi·en·cy副 词:sub·ser'vi·ent·ly
英英解释
3个形容词解释
- compliant and obedient to authority
[例]- editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones
- serving or acting as a means or aid
[同] implemental, instrumental, subservient
[例]- instrumental in solving the crime
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- abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
[同] slavish, submissive, subservient
[例]- slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
- a slavish yes-man to the party bosses
- she has become submissive and subservient
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