subordinate

1. N-COUNT If someone is your subordinate, they have a less important position than you in the organization that you both work for. 下级

Haig tended not to seek guidance from subordinates. 黑格不想向下属们寻求指导。

2. ADJ Someone who is subordinate to you has a less important position than you and has to obey you. 下级的

Sixty of his subordinate officers followed his example. 他的60个下级官员都以他为榜样。

3. ADJ Something that is subordinate to something else is less important than the other thing. 次要的; 从属的

It was an art in which words were subordinate to images. 它是一种语言比图像次要的艺术。

4. V-T If you subordinate something to another thing, you regard it or treat it as less important than the other thing. 使从属于; 把…列于次要地位

He was both willing and able to subordinate all else to this aim. 他既愿意也能够让别的一切从属于这个目标。

5. subordinationN-UNCOUNT 从属; 次要

...the social subordination of women. …妇女们的社会从属地位。