servile
servile 英 [ˈsɜ:vaɪl] 美 [ˈsɜrvl]
adj. 奴隶的；奴性的；卑屈的；卑屈的
名词复数:serviles
- If you want to get someone to like you, don't offer to fetch them a Coke, rub their feet, or do their homework. They won't like you any better, and your servile attitude will only cost you their respect.
- 请先登录
- adj. 奴隶的；奴性的；卑屈的；卑屈的
-
1. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.--This is an American....
他经历厂被迫失业、卑屈的依赖、赤贫和无用的劳动之后，现在正从事一个性质完全不同的劳动，这种劳动将得到充足的物质报酬。
-
2. Men, she believed, had created a domestic, servile role for women in order that men could havethe career and the opportunity to participate in making the great decisions of society.
她认为男人为妇女创制了一个持家操劳的奴隶角色，为的是男人可以获得事业和机遇参与决定重大的社会抉择。
- servile (adj.) late 14c., from Latin servilis "of a slave" (as in Servile Wars, name given to the slave revolts in the late Roman Republic), also "slavish, servile," from servus "slave" (see serve (v.)). Earliest sense was legal, servile work being forbidden on the Sabbath; sense of "cringing, fawning" first recorded c. 1600.
- 请先登录
0 个回复