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

in AM, use 美国英语用 groveling, groveled


• VERB 卑躬屈膝；奴颜婢膝
  If you say that someonegrovels, you think they are behaving too respectfully towards another person, for example because they are frightened or because they want something.
  1. I don't grovel to anybody...
     我对谁都不会卑躬屈膝。
  2. 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。
  3. ...a letter of grovelling apology.
     一封低声下气的致歉信
• VERB （为找东西等）爬行，匍匐
  If yougrovel, you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something.
  1. We grovelled around the club on our knees.
     我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We grovelled around the club on our knees.
  我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。