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Перевод: servility

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раболепие; раболепство; подобострастие
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Тезаурус:

1. In some cases, it did produce dependence and servility.
2. My servility to Sam and admiration for his strength had never stopped Jerry and me being the closest of the family.
3. So it seems that both state monopoly and private enterprise are capable of running a telephone system in which the customers are a prime consideration.What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility
4. And they are threatening, because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility, that it has not been of truly "human" value, that one has been a "fembot" or a "puppet".
5. Do not be too familiar, and remember that "Sir" or "Madam" is not a sign of servility but one of respect.
6. And Mackay's German biographer, Kurt Zube, who knew him personally, recalled an occasion when an irritating example of German servility caused Mackay to say: "I am not a German; I am a Scotchman!"
7. But though obedience may be justly required, servility is not to be exacted; and though it may be lawful to exert authority, it must be remembered, that to govern and to tyrannize are very different, and that oppression will naturally provoke rebellion
8. At this palace, as at the other, servility shows its face and performs its tricks.
9. This is the new generation of the wilderness, the generation which has not known slavery, and which will show no servility.
10. Re-immersion in the Ministry followed this prolonged servility, but a breakthrough came with the Fifties publication of An Asiatic Romance, a satirical fantasy explosively pointing up bureaucracy's absurdity and irrelevance in a world reduced to violence and cannibalism.
11. But where servility and not obedience is called for, then the command to obey clearly does not apply.
12. The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever, but Sir Henry's view on what made a good caddie in 1934, and three years later when he won at Carnoustie, is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart: "My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to.
13. But obedience is not the same as servility.