【正确答案】正确答案：Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term comes from the title character of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe"s 1852 novel Uncle Tom" s Cabin. In the novel the Uncle Tom character is a Christian martyr, morally superior to his white owners in an antebellum fiction. Numerous adaptations altered the depiction substantially, often rendering him feeble, servile, or a race traitor.