servility

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /səˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/|/ˌsɜːˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/    美 /sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/|/ˌsɝˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The condition of being servile. countable,uncountable
    — Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.

词形变化

servilities plural

词汇关系

反义词
arrogance autonomy

词源

Etymology tree
English servile
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English servility
From servile + -ity.
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