英:['sleɪvɪʃlɪ]
美:[ˈslevɪʃlɪ]
英:['sleɪvɪʃlɪ]
美:[ˈslevɪʃlɪ]
adjective
of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitudeespecially: basely or abjectly servile
archaic despicable, low … in a sense it is infinitely reasonable …. But there is such a thing as a mean infinity, a base and slavish eternity.—G. K. Chesterton
I have done with slavish fear of disaster.—Charlotte Brontë
archaic oppressive, tyrannical
No minion of despotism ever ventured to advance more slavish doctrines …—George McDuffie
disapproving copying obsequiously or without originality : imitative
The first known use of slavish was in 1565
sledge1 of 3noun
sledgehammer entry 1
sledge2 of 3noun
a strong heavy sled
sledge3 of 3verb
to travel with or transport on a sledge
sled1 of 2noun
a vehicle usually on runners for transportation especially over snow or ice
a small sled used especially by children for coasting on snow-covered slopes
sled2 of 2verb
to ride or carry on a sled or sleigh
sled1 of 2noun
a vehicle usually on runners for transportation especially over snow or ice
a small sled used especially by children for coasting on snow-covered slopes
sled2 of 2verb
to ride or carry on a sled or sleigh
sleazyadjective
not firm in texture : flimsy
made carelessly of poor material : shoddy
sleazyadjective
not firm in texture : flimsy
made carelessly of poor material : shoddy
sleazyadjective
not firm in texture : flimsy
made carelessly of poor material : shoddy
slayverb
to put to death violently or in great numbers
slayverb
to put to death violently or in great numbers
slawnoun
coleslaw
slavishadjective
of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude
lacking in independence or originality
slavish imitators
1 But when we start shooting it is not necessary to slavishly execute that script.
2 In this period, he worked slavishly at his job and played hard after hours.
3 It's a questing attitude and not just slavishly following the rules.
4 Playing a slavishly devoted wife who refuses to face the truth even when it stares her in the face, Ms. Ryder gives her deepest screen performance in years.
5 But California’s governor was utterly slavish in the role of dutiful party soldier, repeatedly extolling Biden’s performance with a rat-a-tat of statistics — a Newsom hallmark — on falling inflation, rising employment and other favorable barometers.
6 The pair don't slavishly follow a legacy-band agenda, but mix classic material from this 1960s style with originals and more recent works.
7 Faith here, as now, wasn't slavishly harnessed to God, but to other people, following the crooked line of everyday truth and promise.
8 That Miller manages to make such a funny, fully dimensional impression as Barry Allen, better known as the Flash, is no mean feat given the movie’s slavish devotion to nostalgic fan service.
9 It fits for a movie in which almost all the characters have been playing variations on the same role of slavishly adoring, lethally submissive servant.
10 “Some of the dullest adaptations,” she writes in The Times’s Book Review, “are the most slavishly ‘faithful.’
11 "My Arm" strongly suggests Smith, a longtime presence in Seattle's fringe theater, is slavishly, satirically attuned to linguistic and syntactic variety, as well as the rivers of drama or comedy raging through inexpert communication.
12 Ms. Cheng’s vocabulary is almost slavishly based on that of Merce Cunningham, with occasional forays into a curvier, more calligraphic upper body.
13 Follow the current fashion slavishly and pursuing the clothing with promised quality and limited availability ceaselessly.
盲目地追寻当今的流行风,不断地追寻商家允诺的某服装质量以及限量版的新装.
14 Use it as a model for choosing your favorite tools, rather than following it slavishly.
找到一个模式,作为你最喜欢的工具,而不要奴隶般地追随。
15 Radical in its conceit, familiar in its everyday details, “Boyhood” exists at the juncture of classical cinema and the modern art film without being slavishly indebted to either tradition.
16 Perhaps most impressively of all, the show manages to capture the spirit of Conan Doyle's Holmes without slavishly replicating the source material.
17 Isn't art about using your talents to express yourself rather than slavishly copying another's genius?
18 Here, as in all Alston’s work, the dancers, trained in ballet and Merce Cunningham technique, move with clarity and freedom, responsive but not slavishly tied to the music.
19 Legal battles between the two companies intensified after Apple claimed in an April lawsuit in the U.S. that Samsung’s Galaxy devices “slavishly” copied the iPhone and the iPad.
在4月份在美国的起诉中,苹果称三星Galaxy系列“没有原创性”地抄袭了iPhone和iPad,使得两家公司间的法律之争加剧。
20 My parents do and slavishly keep a record of whom they've sent to and received from.