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有帮助的,有用的,奉承的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Subservient \Sub*serv"i*ent\, a. [L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr.
   See {Subserve}.]
   Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior
   capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence,
   servile, truckling.

         Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
         subservient in one kind or other.        --Bp. Fell.

         These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
         another.                                 --Ray.

         Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their
         proselytizing spirit.                    --Burke.

资料来源 : WordNet®

subservient
     adj 1: compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and
            journalists who express opinions in print that are
            opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and
            replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
     2: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
        "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish
        yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become
        submissive and subservient" [syn: {slavish}, {submissive}]