menial
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
发音 mē'nēəl
英文释义
名词 n.
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A servant, especially a domestic servant.
— “Nay, Dame Mary,” answered the Knight, “it is enough you desire such an attendant.—Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials—a lady's page—it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall, fan them when they slumber, and touch the lute for them when they please to listen; […]”
- A person who has a subservient nature.
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
— She hung round him, watching his every look as if she grudged the veriest menial offices from the servants; and she almost scolded him for not eating, when he had done justice enough to the good things set before him to have satisfied even the cook herself.
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Of or relating to unskilled work.
— menial job
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Servile; low; mean.
— a menial wretch
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).
词源 2
From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).
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