| 单词 | servant |
| 释义 | servant (once / 49 pages) n A servant works at someone’s home, often doing lowly tasks. You might feel like a servant when your mom insists that you do the dishes before you can do anything fun, but think how she feels cooking dinner every day! If you’re a servant, you serve someone else. In that 1930s mystery novel, chances are the rich family had servants to set the table and do the laundry. Nowadays, calling someone who does those things a servant has an insulting connotation. If you think your hard work gets no respect, you might feel like a servant. But people who work for the government like to be called "public servants," because they serve the good of public and not themselves. WORD FAMILYservant: servants+/serve: servant, served, server, serves, serving/server: servers/serving: self-serving, servings USAGE EXAMPLESThe group described Turkey as “the servant of the cross.” Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mr. Bernstein, in his book, called Davies and Service “smart and dedicated public servants” who were “naïvely dazzled” by the Communists. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The honorees are actually chosen by civil servants committees based on nominations from the government and the public. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) Syn|Hypo|Hyper retainer body servant a valet or personal maid cabin boya young man acting as a servant on a ship domestic, domestic help, house servanta servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household factotuma servant employed to do a variety of jobs familiara person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support flunkey, flunky, lackeya male servant (especially a footman) major-domo, seneschalthe chief steward or butler of a great household manservanta man servant meniala domestic servant sculliona kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing) servant girl, serving girla girl who is a servant ayah(in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children butler, pantrymana manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table footmana man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores home helpa person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work) housekeepera servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household amah, housemaid, maid, maidservanta female domestic skivvy, slaveya female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambrea manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer worker a person who works at a specific occupation 2n in a subordinate position the state cannot be a servant of the church Syn|Hyper handmaid, handmaiden subordinateness, subsidiarity secondary importance |
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