Stillness may be considered (a sort of) abasement.

以静为下。

In the one case the abasement leads to gaining adherents, in the other case to procuring favour.

故或下以取，或下而取。

Mr Trump did not begin this abasement. But he has embraced it as enthusiastically as anyone and carried it to new depths of his own devising.

尽管特朗普不是罪魁祸首，但是他像大家一样热情地接纳了它，并在自己的计划里把它带到了新高度。

But the former under-stood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement.

但前者沮丧地明白，安妮实际上是在享受她的耻辱谷——陶醉于她彻底的屈辱。