subservient: implies the compliant or cringing manner of one conscious of a subordinate position: domestic help was expected to be properly ~.   (cringe:退缩害怕的样子)  (domestic help=domestic servant家庭佣人)


servile: suggests lowly status and mean or fawning submissiveness: a political boss and his entourage of ~ hangers-on.    (fawn逢迎，submissive顺从)


slavish: suggests abject or debased servility: the ~ condition of migrant farmer workers.   (abject,debased可怜没有尊严)  (servility逢迎顺从)


menial: stresses humbleness and degradation associated with one who works at an economically or socially inferior occupation: wanted to escape from a life of ~ jobs.   (humble恭顺谦卑，degradation降格)


obsequious: implies fawning or sycophantic compliance and exaggerated deference of manner: waiters who are ~ in the presence of celebrities.     (obsequious和sycophantic互释都表示谄媚，即虚伪的称赞)  


subservient: 意识到自身下属地位表现的顺从唯诺，servile奴态的: 地位低微，逢迎顺从，slavish卑贱的: 可怜没有尊严的逢迎顺从，menial: 社经地位弱势的人的恭顺降格，obsequious: 谄媚的顺从，夸张的恭顺


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