词汇 | subserviently |
释义 | subserviently adverb uk /səbˈsɜː.vi.ənt.li/ us /səbˈsɝː.vi.ənt.li/ in a way that shows a willingness to do what other people want, or that shows you consider your wishes as less important than those of other people: 恭顺地,屈从地;低声下气地 He bowed subserviently to his master.他谦恭地对主人鞠躬致意。 I couldn't spend 10 minutes with her, let alone subserviently do her shopping for her.我跟她共处无法超过10分钟,更不要说顺从地替她买东西了。 See subservient These days, patients may not listen to their doctors subserviently when they make mistakes. He seems baffled by the fact that we don't all subserviently do his bidding. He had many times subserviently assured the leader of his loyalty. 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 subservientlysubserviently Was it because he had been a "cage man" too long, always taking orders, always acquiescing subserviently, never asserting? From Project Gutenberg On the contrary, he and others of his ilk are most subserviently dependent on them. From Project Gutenberg Whither he suggested, she followed meekly, almost subserviently. From Project Gutenberg At our entrance the warriors knelt to their chief and crouched subserviently their foreheads to the mat; but afterward they stood erect in a group at one side. From Project Gutenberg 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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