Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify our moods and our actions, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior.

微量的一些激素可以改变我们的情绪和行为，我们的饮食倾向，我们的侵略性或顺从性，以及我们的繁衍和作为父母角色的行为。

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Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness.

情绪或态度谦逊；使人想起谦让的温和甚至是牛一般的柔顺。

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What is wanted is neither submissiveness nor rebellion， but good nature， and general friendliness both to people and to new ideas.

我们要的既非顺服又非反叛，而是良善的性情及对人和新思想的普遍友好。

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Hypercrisy might thus be a signal of submissiveness one that is exaggerated in creatures that feel themselves to be in the wrong place in the hierarchy.

ECONOMIST: The psychology of power