词汇释义

submissiveUK/səbˈmɪs.ɪv/  US/səbˈmɪs.ɪv/TEM8IELTS GRE

adj, If you are submissive, you obey someone without arguing. 顺从的，恭顺的，听话的

外刊例句

1. The leaders of the three main parties had to play the submissive, smiling politely as the flesh was flayed off them.(The Guardian)

2. In the circumstances "being seen in an evening gown with President Obama" risked seeming "submissive and weak", according to Oliver Stuenkel, an international-relations specialist at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a university.(The Economist)

3. The shameful cheerleading of a submissive Congress and news media for this enterprise at a time when courage was truly called for makes you complicit.(The Economist)

4. He has a talent for throwing red meat to Republicans, saying Mr Obama wants to "abandon America's free enterprise economy" and make foreign policy "submissive".(The Economist)

5. According to Time magazine, which first disclosed that Ms Wolf was advising Mr Gore, one tip she offered the vice-president was that he needed to transform himself from a submissive "beta male" into a tooth-baring "alpha male" if he was ever to shake himself free of Bill Clinton and take over as top dog.(The Economist)

6. Non-belief in Christianity certainly is a disqualification for public office in many states, and Democrats are just as submissive in accepting this ground rule as Republicans.(The Economist)

7. In each case, it located one or two dog owners who kept a number of animals of the same breed, and were willing to have them observed interacting with each other for a few hours. The researchers decided to concentrate on aggressive and submissive signals, because they found that these could be stimulated fairly easily, for example by introducing food, toys and unfamiliar dogs into a group.(The Economist)

8. Twelve years ago our institutions were at a weak point because of the submissive power of cocaine-fuelled terrorists.(The Economist)

9. After the Goldstone controversy he cannot afford to be perceived as weak and submissive.(The Economist)

10. The exhibition describes this look as expressive of her humility, though another word for it would be submissive; it evokes the age-old notion that a woman's direct gaze is impure. And though the exhibit takes pains to represent Mary as "a protagonist in her own rich life story", the images underscore the sense in which her story is marked, above all, by lack of agency.(The Economist)

11. The greatest tragedy here was the colossal deception that enabled Mr Bush to embark on a wholly unnecessary war of choice against an enemy that posed no meaningful danger, sinking our republic to a new low. The shameful cheerleading of a submissive Congress and news media for this enterprise at a time when bravery was truly called for makes you complicit.(The Economist)

12. Add a promise to work with France's EU partners, an offer to be friendly (but not submissive) to the United States and a pledge to defend the rights of women (including those condemned to the burka): it all sounded immediately and genuinely presidential.What of the talking heads?(The Economist)

词汇搭配

submissive people, reply

词汇来源

1580s, "inclined to submit, yielding to authority," from Latin submiss-, past participle stem of submittere (see submission) + -ive. Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness.

近义词

amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, law-abiding, obedient, tractable

反义词

balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful

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