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单词 subservience
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subservience
noun[U]
uk
/səbˈsɜː.vi.əns/us
/səbˈsɝː.vi.əns/
awillingnessto do what otherpeoplewant, or theactofconsideringyourwishesas lessimportantthan those of otherpeople:
恭顺，屈从；低声下气
Shelivesintotalsubserviencetothe men in herfamily.她在生活中完全屈从于家庭中的男人。
Afteryearsof subserviencetotheWest,artistsreturnedtoIndianthemesintheirliterature,theatre, andmusic.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。
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  • Thesong"Stand ByYourMan" hasbecomeasymboloffemalesubservience.
  • Their subservience torulersof thedaywas thekeyforsurvival.
  • His subservience isemphasizedby therepeatedtalkof "servant" and "lord".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Obedient and compliant
  • accordance
  • acquiescent
  • adherence
  • be (like) sheepidiom
  • creature
  • dutiful
  • dutifully
  • easy
  • follower
  • I'm easyidiom
  • obedience
  • pursuant
  • sheep
  • sheeple
  • slavish
  • slavishly
  • someone'sanswer tosomeone/somethingidiom
  • subservient
  • tie
  • yielding
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(Definition ofsubserviencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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A coat signalledsubservience, dependence or independence in very real ways.
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And what it means to be a private is thus defined and constituted in part by that relationship ofsubservience.
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Female respectability became more strongly correlated with femalesubservience.
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The state legislature merely declared that the existing practices constituted the new state system (minus any furthersubservienceto the crown).
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Let's assume that she began life as the daughter of loving parents in a culture with deep traditions of femalesubservience.
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The illustration here is of the intimacy between will and intellect, not of thesubservienceof intellect to will.
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He found support within the ranks of these urban elites, andsubserviencefrom the vulnerable, usually landless, peasantries nearby, who became ready sources of conscripts.
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Let us also stipulate that she was brought up to acceptsubserviencein a way that we would regard as oppressive.
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It portrays their rank as mere window-dressing in the continuing story ofsubservience.
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Can we find the kind of balance between internal and external complexity that creates a synergy, rather than a dominance andsubservience, between them?
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Suchsubserviencedenies individual freedom and confirms the natural superiority of the past.
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She probably holds no views about the inferior role of women or the goodness ofsubserviencegenerally.
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It is possible to hold even the values ofsubservienceand obedience authentically.
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And, increasingly, working men shunned the wearing of livery, which carried a particular taint ofsubservience.
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The state of the world is a mass of contradictory opinions, which can only be resolved bysubservienceto custom.
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