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单词 slavish
释义
slavish
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˈsleɪ.vɪʃ/us
/ˈsleɪ.vɪʃ/
obeyingcompletelyand having nooriginalthoughtsorideas:
唯命是从的，盲从的
a slavishdevotiontoduty盲目忠于职守
a slavishtranslation刻板的翻译
Synonyms
serviledisapproving
submissive
Opposite
domineeringdisapproving
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
  • slavishly
  • someone'sanswer tosomeone/somethingidiom
  • subservience
  • subservient
  • tie
  • yielding
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(Definition ofslavishfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

slavish| American Dictionary

slavish
adjective
us
/ˈsleɪ·vɪʃ/
completelyobedient:
He wascriticizedfor his slavishdevotiontorulesandregulations.
(Definition ofslavishfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofslavish

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Ethics means confronting the ambiguous and the obvious alike, withoutslavishdogma, especially from the left.
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Dangers ofslavishover-adherence to deleterious 'substitute judgements', potentially based on outmoded and ill-informed previous views, are, it is to be hoped, avoided.
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This does not extend, however, to aslavishaddition to form.
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This mismatch undermines assumptions that the rural masses areslavishfollowers of their religious leaders.
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Certainly much of the research of the 1980s could be in part characterized as theslavishreplication of studies conducted in first language.
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Thereby the dangers ofslavishoveradherence to deleterious 'substitute judgements', potentially based on outmoded and ill-informed previous views, should be avoided.
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More important, it gives them a validity which mere and oftenslavishadherence to the parent tradition usually the first manifestations of writing in the imported language does not.
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Without being aslavishdevotee of what is called purchasing power parity theory.
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As such, the convention is for the guidance of wise men and theslavishobedience of fools.
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The political class consists entirely ofslavishservants of the president as a result of a system of rewards and punishments.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I said that we should not beslavishin our response to it.
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One of the commonest vices of subordinate nations is the sort ofslavishsnobbery which apes the thing of the dominant nation.
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In this case it is either an inability to face facts or aslavishadherence to departmental philosophy.
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There are even someslavishadmirers of it.
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It is right that a debate on a matter of such gravity should not follow a pattern ofslavishadherence to a consensus viewpoint.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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