Slavish

(adj.) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; 'slavish devotion to her job ruled her life'; 'a slavish yes-man to the party bosses'- S.H.Adams; 'she has become submissive and subservient' .

(adj.) blindly imitative; 'a slavish copy of the original' .

弗朗西丝编辑

• When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He may be careless and proud; but when was he ever mean or slavish? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I too was awe-struck; being, however, under no pressure of slavish terror, my thoughts and observations were free. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I have done with slavish fear of disaster. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And being uneducated he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish, breeding in his soul. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• All slavish terrors of embarrassment have left me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

编辑:帕特里克