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词汇 submissiveness
释义 submissiveness
noun[ U ]
uk /səbˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/ us /səbˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/
a willingness to allow control by other people or animals, or behaviour that shows this: 顺从;顺从的举止
Submissiveness was seen as desirable in women.顺从被认为是女性的可取之处。
Dogs bare their throats to each other to show their submissiveness. 狗会对着对方露出喉咙,以示顺从。
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submissive
He was a religious autocrat who demanded submissiveness to his will from his young charges.
He works hard to ingratiate himself through jokes and fawning, conveying a fidgety submissiveness.
One dog will signal his submissiveness to the other.
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Examples of submissiveness


submissiveness
She acknowledges her inferior position by gesture, movement and posture, knowing that her deference and submissiveness are her best defences at the early stages.
Our tendency is to passivity, compliance, submissiveness to the repetitive machine, while thought disrupts these established patterns.
If submissiveness ceased, it would be over with all lordship.
The hospital provided the doctor with easy and controlled access to the patient, her submissiveness, and institutional (and legitimate) separation from the family.
It also took advantage of the submissiveness and corruption of leaders and delayed accession to extract further concessions.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They are a tribute to the extraordinary submissiveness of the millions of impoverished poor in this country.
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The economic dependence of women on men is one of the many reasons for women's passivity, submissiveness and also, in a certain sense, their consent to the phenomenon of violence.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
For too long, we have been hoodwinked by those who favour leniency and submissiveness in dealing with the part of society that chooses to live outside the law.
From the
Hansard archive

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Submissiveness and necessity led me to the theater; propensity for and the love of this work emboldened me to write.
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True women were supposed to possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.
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Krontiris suggests that female translators were typically more literal than male ones, in order to emphasise their submissiveness.
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If his seventeenth century heroines demonstrate any characteristics, it is submissiveness.
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In short, the new good child was a paragon of dutiful submissiveness, refined virtue, and appropriate sensibility.
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Sim also notes a predominant theme of submissiveness amongst the female characters, a reinforcement of traditional gender roles.
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It turned strongly conservative, hoping through submissiveness and cooperation to maintain its few remaining contracts.
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