0 too eager to serve and please someone else in a way that shows you do not have much respect for yourself -- 卑躬的；諂媚的
He was wearing livery and the livery signalled his servile status.
They are thus apparently restricted to two genres : ethnographic or servile.
These highlight the need for more comparative work between desert peoples, between nomads and ' sedentaries ', and between the colonial and post-colonial ' servile ' condition.
It is also true that servile imitation is no reform and is often worse than the original evil.
The ratio of males to females rose dramatically with an equal fall in the ratio of children to adults in the total servile population.
Two other ostensible patronyms seem by their diminutive form to imply a servile origin.
The causes are completely different and must be sought in the ways in which marriages are concluded and in the servile condition of women.
Where the frankpledge system existed, all free and servile men were pledged to one another in small groups, usually of ten men, providing mutual surety.
