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单词 slavishly
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Definition of slavishly in English:

slavishly

adverb ˈsleɪvɪʃ(ə)liˈsleɪvɪʃli
  • 1In a servile or submissive manner.

    he slavishly followed the party line
    rules that must be slavishly obeyed whatever the circumstances
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His story reinforced a stereotype of these people as inhuman, mindless drones who slavishly serve their emperor.
    • She slavishly clutched the sleeve of her aunt's kimono.
    • Hardly any foreign visitors are allowed—only aid workers whose movements are tightly monitored, and those who slavishly praise a regime that has defied history.
    • His grown daughter and his ex-brother-in-law slavishly run the estate for him.
    • She is the slavishly adoring but unsightly would-be lover in his godforsaken garrison town.
    • He was slavishly devoted to a plane tree, as if the tree was something to be wondered at.
    • When he stepped down from the rostrum at the end of his speech, he sat next to the deputy leader of the party, his most slavishly subservient follower.
    • The entire crew worked slavishly night after night, and given the results, it shows.
    • During the Reagan years, the news media began to slavishly follow the dictates of the White House.
    • To the right sits a somnolent, patently oblivious Buddha-like man, slavishly attended by scantily clad concubines.
    1. 1.1 In a way that shows no attempt at originality.
      they adhere slavishly to a script written for them
      children slavishly copy their football heroes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He isn't weighed down by the responsibility of adhering too slavishly to their melodic core.
      • For some musicians, punk was less a style to be slavishly imitated than the sound of a door opening.
      • The group is so slavishly imitative that it has not even noticed that the US tax year starts on January 1, but the New Zealand one starts on April 1.
      • If he does not slavishly copy appearances, there is no brag in his brush, no need to impress with his gifts.
      • I want a manager to have the freedom to select stocks, not slavishly follow the index.
      • Flattering as it may be to our egos, the Japanese don't always slavishly ape our tastes in entertainment.
      • Among her pet hates are what she describes as 'transient fashion', 'fashion victims', and slavishly following what celebrities are wearing.
      • Instead of slavishly copying the current trend or concept, why not try to do things a little differently?
      • The restaurants here are either dull and conservative or slavishly derivative in an almost adolescent way, without the wherewithal to carry it off.
      • There's no need for him to slavishly ape Hitchcock to be a great film-maker.
 
 

Definition of slavishly in US English:

slavishly

adverbˈsleɪvɪʃliˈslāviSHlē
  • 1In a servile or submissive manner.

    he slavishly followed the party line
    rules that must be slavishly obeyed whatever the circumstances
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To the right sits a somnolent, patently oblivious Buddha-like man, slavishly attended by scantily clad concubines.
    • During the Reagan years, the news media began to slavishly follow the dictates of the White House.
    • His grown daughter and his ex-brother-in-law slavishly run the estate for him.
    • The entire crew worked slavishly night after night, and given the results, it shows.
    • Hardly any foreign visitors are allowed—only aid workers whose movements are tightly monitored, and those who slavishly praise a regime that has defied history.
    • When he stepped down from the rostrum at the end of his speech, he sat next to the deputy leader of the party, his most slavishly subservient follower.
    • His story reinforced a stereotype of these people as inhuman, mindless drones who slavishly serve their emperor.
    • She slavishly clutched the sleeve of her aunt's kimono.
    • He was slavishly devoted to a plane tree, as if the tree was something to be wondered at.
    • She is the slavishly adoring but unsightly would-be lover in his godforsaken garrison town.
    1. 1.1 In a way that shows no attempt at originality.
      they adhere slavishly to a script written for them
      they slavishly copy one another
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He isn't weighed down by the responsibility of adhering too slavishly to their melodic core.
      • Flattering as it may be to our egos, the Japanese don't always slavishly ape our tastes in entertainment.
      • For some musicians, punk was less a style to be slavishly imitated than the sound of a door opening.
      • The restaurants here are either dull and conservative or slavishly derivative in an almost adolescent way, without the wherewithal to carry it off.
      • Instead of slavishly copying the current trend or concept, why not try to do things a little differently?
      • There's no need for him to slavishly ape Hitchcock to be a great film-maker.
      • Among her pet hates are what she describes as 'transient fashion', 'fashion victims', and slavishly following what celebrities are wearing.
      • The group is so slavishly imitative that it has not even noticed that the US tax year starts on January 1, but the New Zealand one starts on April 1.
      • I want a manager to have the freedom to select stocks, not slavishly follow the index.
      • If he does not slavishly copy appearances, there is no brag in his brush, no need to impress with his gifts.
 
 
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