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

• 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。
• How could he choose for himself, he was a slave, completely subservient to his master?
  他是个仆人，完全服从他的主人，他怎么能自己选择呢？
• 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。
• 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。
• We make ourselves subservient to our poetry.
  我们使我们屈从于我们的诗。
• People should not is regard as subservient to the economic system
  不应把人的因素看成是经济体制的附庸
• She has become submissive and subservient.
  她变得谦让恭顺，唯命是从。
• 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。
• The military strategy must be subservient to this new political process.
  军事战略必须服从这一新政治进程。