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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, a.
   Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the
   humors of those in power.

Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, n.
   An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the
   humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's
   independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

   Syn: Temporizing.

   Usage: {Timeserving}, {Temporizing}. Both these words are
          applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself
          servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather
          active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is
          timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or
          opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is
          temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment
          or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action
          which might injure him with others. The former is
          dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are
          contemptible.

                Trimming and timeserving, which are but two
                words for the same thing, . . . produce
                confusion.                        --South.

                [I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer,
                that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and
                evil, Inclining to them both.     --Shak.

資料來源 : WordNet®

timeserving
     adj : taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any
           circumstance of possible benefit [syn: {opportunist}, {opportunistic}]