grovelled
英 [ˈɡrɒvld]
美 [ˈɡrɑːvld]
v. 卑躬屈膝; 俯首帖耳; 奴颜婢膝; 爬行，匍匐(尤指找东西)
grovel的过去分词和过去式
柯林斯词典
- VERB 卑躬屈膝；奴颜婢膝
If you say that someone grovels, you think they are behaving too respectfully towards another person, for example because they are frightened or because they want something.- I don't grovel to anybody...
我对谁都不会卑躬屈膝。 - Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to grovel.
发言人的声音被叫嚷声盖住了，课堂一片混乱，老师们不得不好言相劝。 - ...a letter of grovelling apology.
一封低声下气的致歉信
- I don't grovel to anybody...
- VERB （为找东西等）爬行，匍匐
If you grovel, you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something.- We grovelled around the club on our knees.
我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。
- We grovelled around the club on our knees.
in AM, use 美国英语用 groveling, groveled
双语例句
- We grovelled around the club on our knees.
我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。 - It grovelled helpless on the ground, even while his intellectual faculties retained their pristine strength, or had perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have given them.
虽说他的智能还保持着原有的力量，或者说，可能已经达到了只有疾病才会造成的一种病态的亢奋，但他的精神力量已经到了无能为力的地步了。 - Sellers withdrew the offending products and grovelled.
卖家召回存在质量问题的生肉并且表示歉意。 - The dog grovelled before his master when he saw the whip.
那狗看到鞭子，便匍匐在主人面前。 - He grovelled so helplessly, she pitied him.
他卑躬屈节，无可奈何，她不由得同情起他来。 - I propelled myself straight into his office and grovelled.
我强迫自己走进他的办公室，低声下气地认错。 - You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!
你可以想象我沉沦的深渊是什么样子！