| 词汇 | subservience |
| 释义 | subservience noun[ U ] uk /səbˈsɜː.vi.əns/ us /səbˈsɝː.vi.əns/ a willingness to do what other people want, or the act of considering your wishes as less important than those of other people: 恭顺，屈从;低声下气 She lives in total subservience to the men in her family.她在生活中完全屈从于家庭中的男人。 After years of subservience to the West, artists returned to Indian themes in their literature, theatre, and music.在屈从于西方多年之后，艺术家们在文学、戏剧和音乐中回归到了印度主题。 See subservient The song "Stand By Your Man" has become a symbol of female subservience. Their subservience to rulers of the day was the key for survival. His subservience is emphasized by the repeated talk of "servant" and "lord". Obedient and compliant accordance acquiescent acquiescently adherence compliantly do as someone is told dutiful dutifully easy follower pliable pursuant ruly sheep sheeple slavish someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom truckle what/whatever someone says goesidiom yielding Examples of subserviencesubservience 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. See all examples of subservience 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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