obsequious [ɑbˈsikwiəs, əb-]

例句:

• The landladies paid court to her, in the obsequious way landladies have.
  女店主们以她们特有的谄媚方式向她献殷勤.
  
• Barrow was positively obsequious to me until he learnt that I too was the son of a labouring man.
  巴罗竭力讨好我，直到得知我也是工人家庭出身。
  
• He looked at the two ladies with an obsequious air.
  他看着两位太太,满脸谄媚的神情.
  
• Was he so unmanned, so obsequious, so humbly offering his services reassuring?
  来自NEWYORKER
• An army may be so constituted as to be...efficient against an enemy, and yet obsequious to the...magistrate.
  来自Ld Macaulay
• For Nat, though, Moby embodies his personal hell, the pit of obsequious whiteness he's spent his whole life sidestepping.
  来自NEWYORKER