grovel是什么意思？

grovel

英[ˈgrɒvl] 美[ˈgrɑvl]

• vi. 卑躬屈节，奴颜婢膝，趴；

第三人称单数：grovels;

过去式：grovelled;

过去分词：grovelled;

现在分词：grovelling;

形容词：grovelling;

例句

• Manager : Ah! The famous Monsieur poirot. I grovel in mortification, I grovel ! 乔德利: 啊,著名的波洛先生,我未免太失敬了, 失敬 了.
• Don't grovel — stick up for yourself! 你别卑躬屈膝──要自卫!
• 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。
• I don't grovel to anybody... 我对谁都不会卑躬屈膝。

同义词

• vi.
  grovel的同义词之：匍匐;
  creep, crawl,
• grovel的同义词之：其他释义
  creep, crawl, cower,

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. show submission or fear