0 willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people -- 恭順的，屈從的；低聲下氣的
And it is not just that music has traditionally won, but along with it, a dramatic and representational vocabulary subservient to the music.
Voluntary agencies were not independent and self-determined actors, but were legitimised by government only in so far as they acknowledged their subservient position.
At the same time they overlay and reinforce a pre-existing musical binary - the primacy of the lead vocal over the ' subservient' backing chorus - instrumental accompaniment.
One result is that programmes have kept women in subservient and separated roles, relative to male laity at all levels of the church.
By enacting the subservient role with the required deferential manners they could to an extent assert their interests.
People commonly regard monism as a doctrine in which parts are merged into and subservient before the whole - a kind of metaphysical totalitarianism.
One may describe the role of axioms here as the subservient one of fixing the range of variables entering into the explicit constructions.
As she had lived in habits of familiarity with the first nobility, she conceived the idea of rendering their patronage subservient to her scheme.
