| 词汇 | example_english_subservience |
| 释义 | Examples of subservienceThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. A coat signalled subservience, dependence or independence in very real ways. And what it means to be a private is thus defined and constituted in part by that relationship of subservience. Female respectability became more strongly correlated with female subservience. The state legislature merely declared that the existing practices constituted the new state system (minus any further subservience to the crown). Let's assume that she began life as the daughter of loving parents in a culture with deep traditions of female subservience. The illustration here is of the intimacy between will and intellect, not of the subservience of intellect to will. He found support within the ranks of these urban elites, and subservience from the vulnerable, usually landless, peasantries nearby, who became ready sources of conscripts. Let us also stipulate that she was brought up to accept subservience in a way that we would regard as oppressive. It portrays their rank as mere window-dressing in the continuing story of subservience. Can we find the kind of balance between internal and external complexity that creates a synergy, rather than a dominance and subservience, between them? Such subservience denies individual freedom and confirms the natural superiority of the past. She probably holds no views about the inferior role of women or the goodness of subservience generally. It is possible to hold even the values of subservience and obedience authentically. And, increasingly, working men shunned the wearing of livery, which carried a particular taint of subservience. The state of the world is a mass of contradictory opinions, which can only be resolved by subservience to custom. The shadows, like extensions of their spirit, play out a drama of mastery and subservience as in a shadow puppet theatre turning the characters into emblems or symbols. We have no doubt in saying that it is time the tenant was emancipated from his present subservience to the landlord. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Leadership and responsibility are much harder to achieve and much more worth achieving than compulsion and subservience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They preferred every danger—and the gravity of the danger was not in doubt—to a dishonourable subservience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The manufacturers accepted a position of subservience to their chief customer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I agree with that answer, but is not the reality that the relationship between the two countries is one of subservience rather than closeness? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The additional members are chosen by virtue of their loyalty or even subservience to the party. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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