servile

英 [ˈsɜːvaɪl]

美 [ˈsɜːrvl]

adj.  奴性的; 逢迎的; 恭顺的

复数：serviles　

GRETEM8

BNC.20553 / COCA.26139

牛津词典

adj.

• 奴性的；逢迎的；恭顺的
  wanting too much to please sb and obey them

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 奴性的;逢迎的;恭顺的
  If you say that someone isservile, you disapprove of them because they are too eager to obey someone or do things for them.
  1. He was subservient and servile...
     他低声下气、卑躬屈膝。
  2. They said she had a servile attitude to her employer.
     他们说她对她的老板阿谀逢迎。

英英释义

adj

• submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
  1. spoke in a servile tone
  2. the incurably servile housekeeper
  3. servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work

双语例句

• In English the word means to be servile: to behave in an extremely submissive way in order to please somebody in a position of authority.
  在英语中的意思是奴化：为了取悦别人，表现得非常顺从。
• A good servant should be complaisant but not servile.
  一个好的仆人应该是殷勤的，而不是卑屈的。
• A servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  斯陀夫人小说中黑人奴隶人物。
• The once servile peasants turned against the cruel king.
  曾一度臣服的农民起来反对残暴的国王。
• It tells us about the feminists who think Hello Kitty infantilises women and encourages them to be servile, quoting their angry outpourings.
  书中还说女权主义者认为凯蒂猫将女性幼儿化，鼓励女性屈服。
• Bow in a servile manner.
  用一种奴性的方式鞠躬。
• Attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner.
  殷勤，举止逢迎、奴性。
• With strangers, I adopted the servile manner of a concierge greeting wealthy clients in a hotel-salival enthusiasm born of a morbid, indiscriminate desire for affection.
  对待陌生人，我常采取饭店守门人对待有钱顾客那种奉承的态度&那是出于讨好所有人的欲望而表现出的过分殷勤。
• Wholesale westernization was the view held by a number of westernized Chinese bourgeois intellectuals who unconditionally praised the servile imitation of capitalist Europe and america.
  所谓“全盘西化”，是一部分资产阶级学者的主张。他们主张中国一切东西都要完全模仿欧美资本主义国家。
• A servile civilization is a standing invitation to predatory free men.
  一个柔弱的文明对那些掠夺成性的自由人来说是一份长期有效的请帖。