Servile

(adj.) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; 'spoke in a servile tone'; 'the incurably servile housekeeper'; 'servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work' .

(adj.) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants; 'Brown's attempt at servile insurrection'; 'the servile wars of Sicily'; 'servile work' .

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• They had little originality, and speedily became servile copyists, so that Palissy ware for a time lost the high place it had held. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new prosperity, saying, May I? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It seems as inevitable that voyaging should make men free in their minds as that settlement within a narrow horizon should make men timid and servile. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Means are menial, the serviceable is servile. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Not a servile one—these Hands will never do that! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• What a launch in life I think it now, on looking back, to be so mean and servile to a man of such parts and pretensions! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Shall I bow my head before them, and with servile gesture sell my nobility for life? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I shall vote for the appointment of Mr. Tyke, but I should not have known, if Mr. Hackbutt hadn't hinted it, that I was a Servile Crawler. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I did not, however, aim at gaining his favour by paying any servile respect to him, but after some time took this other method. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• She also is dressed with great neatness, and her white, delicate hands betray very little acquaintance with servile toil. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Lawyer Lightwood,' ducking at him with a servile air, 'I am a man as gets my living, and as seeks to get my living, by the sweat of my brow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Without any doubt socialism has within it the germs of that great bureaucratic tyranny which Chesterton and Belloc have named the Servile State. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Our economic conditions still relegate many men to a servile status. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Are you impatient at what you perhaps consider his _servile_ position? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Yes, sir, returns Mr. Smallweed, very servile to the lawyer's wealth and influence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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