grovel 词态变化
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;
grovel 中文词源
grovel 卑躬曲膝词源同creep, 爬。
grovel 英文词源
- grovel
- grovel: [16] Old and Middle English had a suffix -ling, used for making adverbs denoting direction or condition. Few survive, and of those that do, most have had their -ling changed to the more logical-sounding -long (headlong and sidelong, for instance, used to be headling and sideling; darkling still hangs on – just – unchanged).
Among them was grovelling, an adverb meaning ‘face downwards’ based on the phrase on grufe ‘on the face or stomach’, which in turn was a partial translation of Old Norse á grúfu, literally ‘on proneness’ (grúfu may be related to English creep). It was not long before grovelling came to be regarded as a present participle, and the new verb grovel was coined from it.
=> creep - grovel (v.)
- 1590s, Shakespearean back-formation from groveling "on the face, prostrate" (mid-14c.), also used in Middle English as an adjective but probably really an adverb, from gruffe, from Old Norse grufe "prone" + obsolete adverbial suffix -ling (which survives also as the -long in headlong, sidelong). The Old Norse word is found in liggja à grufu "lie face-down," literally "lie on proneness." Old Norse also had grufla "to grovel," grufa "to grovel, cower, crouch down." The whole group is perhaps related to creep (v.). Related: Groveled; grovelled; groveling; grovelling.
grovel 英文释义
- 1. show submission or fear
grovel 双语例句
- 1. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. I don't grovel to anybody.
- 我对谁都不会卑躬屈膝。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Don't grovel — stick up for yourself!
- 你别卑躬屈膝──要自卫!
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. He said he would never grovel before a conqueror.
- 他说他永远不会在征服者脚下摇尾乞怜.
来自辞典例句
- 5. She will not grovel to anyone.
- 她不会向任何人屈服.
来自辞典例句
grovel 实用场景例句
- [只用于名词前]a grovelling letter of apology
- 一封低声下气的道歉信
牛津词典
- I don't grovel to anybody...
- 我对谁都不会卑躬屈膝。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- We grovelled around the club on our knees.
- 我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Maybe if I really grovel, he will pass me.
- 如果我真的去说说好话,也许他(老师)会让我及格.
期刊摘选
- Pessimistic persons would like to grovel on the floor rather than meet the challenge.
- 悲观的人宁肯永远趴在地上也不愿迎接挑战。
期刊摘选
- She will not grovel to anyone.
- 她不会向任何人屈服.
辞典例句
- 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.
期刊摘选
- You will just have to grovel to the bank manager for a loan.
- 你只得低声下气地向银行经理借贷.
辞典例句
- Don't grovel — stick up for yourself!
- 你别卑躬屈膝──要自卫!
《简明英汉词典》
- After struggling for months, it dawned on me that I needed to grovel.
- 在苦苦挣扎了几个月后, 我终于顿悟到自己应该在她面前卑躬屈膝才是.
期刊摘选
- Since they speak straightforwardly and selflessly and never appear to grovel or fawn.
- 因为他们说话正直无私,容色也不阿谀谄媚.
期刊摘选
- Were I such they would grovel at my feet.
- 倘若我真是暴君,他们就会俯伏在我的脚下了.
期刊摘选
- Then he began to grovel and wail, " I deserve to die! "
- 这时他趴倒在地嚎叫道 “ 我该死 ”.
期刊摘选
- He said he would never grovel before a conqueror.
- 他说他永远不会在征服者脚下摇尾乞怜.
辞典例句
- A man apologizes when he's wrong, but he will grovel before no one.
- 一个人犯了错该向人道歉, 但不应该卑躬屈节.
期刊摘选
- I don't grovel to anybody.
- 我对谁都不会卑躬屈膝。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
