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单词 submissiveness
释义
submissiveness
noun[U]
uk
/səbˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/us
/səbˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/
awillingnesstoallowcontrolby otherpeopleoranimals, orbehaviourthatshowsthis:
顺从；顺从的举止
Submissiveness wasseenasdesirablein women.顺从被认为是女性的可取之处。
Dogsbaretheirthroatsto each other to showtheirsubmissiveness.狗会对着对方露出喉咙，以示顺从。
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(Definition ofsubmissivenessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubmissiveness

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She acknowledges her inferior position by gesture, movement and posture, knowing that her deference andsubmissivenessare her best defences at the early stages.
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The women who are low performers have scores which indicate a high level of stereotypical femininity onsubmissiveness, narcissism, creative interests and femininity.
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Our tendency is to passivity, compliance,submissivenessto the repetitive machine, while thought disrupts these established patterns.
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Ifsubmissivenessceased, it would be over with all lordship.
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The hospital provided the doctor with easy and controlled access to the patient, hersubmissiveness, and institutional (and legitimate) separation from the family.
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It also took advantage of thesubmissivenessand corruption of leaders and delayed accession to extract further concessions.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They are a tribute to the extraordinarysubmissivenessof 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,submissivenessand also, in a certain sense, their consent to the phenomenon of violence.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
For too long, we have been hoodwinked by those who favour leniency andsubmissivenessin dealing with the part of society that chooses to live outside the law.
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Hansard archive
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Submissivenessand 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, andsubmissiveness.
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Krontiris suggests that female translators were typically more literal than male ones, in order to emphasise theirsubmissiveness.
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If his seventeenth century heroines demonstrate any characteristics, it issubmissiveness.
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In short, the new good child was a paragon of dutifulsubmissiveness, refined virtue, and appropriate sensibility.
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Sim also notes a predominant theme ofsubmissivenessamongst the female characters, a reinforcement of traditional gender roles.
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