Subservient

(adj.) 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'-G. B. Shaw .

戈代娃手打

• I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It is a process of pride--I want to be proud--' 'Proud and subservient, proud and subservient, I know you,' he retorted dryly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She could be very pleasant and flattering, almost subservient, to people she met. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In the olden days the wage of battle was almost universally decided by the strength of brawn, and the higher qualities of mind were subservient. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In the selection that he made from his sources can be traced, as in the wor k of Vitruvius and other Latin writers, the tendency to make the sciences subservient to the arts. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

校对:蒂米