subservience

基本解释

Gorbachev seems to have mastered it to perfection - critical in private, but in public a model of energetic subservience, a perfect heir apparent for the Kremlin old guard.
戈尔巴乔夫似乎已经熟练掌握这种本领，以至于到了炉火纯青的地步：私底下发表批判性的观点，但在公开场合又是一套模式性的积极奉承。活像一个克里姆林宫保守势力的完美接班人。
A mother may demand subservience from a daughter but not from a son; she may pressure one child to conform to her ambitious expectations, but allow another to go her own way.
一位母亲可能只要求女儿的奉承，而不是儿子的，她可能会给一个孩子压力，以符合她雄心勃勃的期望，但允许另一个孩子走自己的路。
So subservience to a human king, native or foreign, is in these texts considered a rejection of the divine kingship, and it's seen as a breach of the covenant.
在这些文章中，归属于人类的国王，本土的，国外的，都会当做是对神圣关系的抵制，这被看作是违反契约的行为。

There are also texts that are going to object to alliances with any foreign king, or subservience to any foreign king, whether it's Egypt or Assyria or Babylonia.
也有的文本会反对,结盟，或者附属于任何外国的君主,无论是埃及，亚述，还是巴比伦的国王。
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So subservience to a human king, native or foreign, is in these texts considered a rejection of the divine kingship, and it's seen as a breach of the covenant.
在这些文章中，归属于人类的国王，本土的，国外的，都会当做是对神圣关系的抵制，这被看作是违反契约的行为。
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But this pious subservience that you have ending this passage - and certainly it's consonant with that image from the Nativity Ode - nonetheless, I think it's safe to say that it comes as quite a shock when you consider the sentence as a whole.
但文章结尾这种虔诚的奉献,当然与耶稣诞生颂当中的比喻是一致的,尽管如此，当你把这句话作为一个整体来考虑的时候,任然会很震惊。
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His foreign policy revolves around coddling Third World dictators, snubbing traditional friends and overall subservience to the U.N.
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