inferiors

基本解释

The minister domineers over his inferiors.
那位部长对下级盛气凌人。
To be humble to Superiors is Duty, to Equals Courtesy, to Inferiors Nobleness.
对上级谦恭是职责，对平辈谦恭是礼貌，对下级谦恭是高尚。
Though the boss worried the inevitable inflation could influence the factory, he encouraged his inferiors to produce the new product.
虽然老板担心不可避免的通货膨胀可能会影响工厂，他还是鼓励下属生产这项新产品。

Such experts, of course, see little need for give and take with their intellectual inferiors, in Congress or elsewhere.
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He had thought of women as inferiors, racked with penis envy, whose only route to fulfilment lay through men.
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Her manner was in contrast to the sometimes-starchy rituals of traditional European hotelkeeping, which derive from a time when the aristocracy demanded deference from their social inferiors.
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Something that is inferior is not as good as something else.
If one person is regarded as inferior to another, they are regarded as less important because they have less status or ability.
Inferior is also a noun.
inferiority