Skills at the lowest level have to be wooed slavishly and exorbitantly rewarded.

技的工人也要卑躬屈膝地去恳，还要付给昂贵的报酬。

When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his books; when he was not reading he was meeting her.

约布赖特不跟游苔莎在一起的时候，坐在书本前刻苦研读；他不读书的时候，去跟游苔莎约会。

Yet the West still chases slavishly after ever-higher gross domestic product, a purely material measure that takes no account of the blessings of nature or leisure.

但是西方国家仍盲目高的国内生产总值，他们完全以物质衡量一切，无视自然和放松为我们带来的益处。