grovelling

英 [ˈɡrɒvlɪŋ]

美 [ˈɡrɑːvlɪŋ]

v.  卑躬屈膝; 俯首帖耳; 奴颜婢膝; 爬行，匍匐(尤指找东西)
grovel的现在分词

现在分词：grovelling　

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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。

英英释义

adj

• totally submissive
  Synonym:cringinggrovelingwormlikewormy

双语例句

• Is your husband such a precious bargain that you should be grovelling there, lamenting and groaning for him?
  难道你丈夫是这么一个宝贝，以致你要匍匐在那儿，为他痛哭哀号？
• But I think things should go back, not to the old deference, not to grovelling, not to any of that but just to feeling respect, because I think that would make everyone's life more pleasant.
  但我认为我们还是要发扬传统，这并不是说要顺从恭敬或卑躬屈膝，只是要学会尊重别人，因为这会让生活更加美好。
• Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken.
  我们必须离弃卑贱低下的恩想，必须挪去怀疑悲观的意念，也必须抛除自我追求和属世的享乐。
• On the contrary, his opponents claim, the president has specialised in grovelling to foreigners, snubbing allies, frittering away American prestige and pursuing chimerical peace initiatives.
  相反，他的对手宣称，这位总统最擅长对外国人卑躬屈膝、对盟友冷落怠慢、白白损耗美国的威望、支持不切实际的和平倡议。
• I'm not that kind of person who is always grovelling to the boss. I just do my job.
  我不是那种竭力讨好上司的人，我只是做自己的工作。
• The power of the state prompts firms to spend more time grovelling to politicians than grappling with original thoughts.
  比起处理独到的思想，国家权力迫使企业花费更多的时间去讨政府官员的欢心。
• But the wretched father was grovelling on his face on the pavement in that spot, and the figure that stood beside him was the figure of a dark stout woman, knitting.
  可是那凄惨的父亲正匍匐在那儿的路面上，他身边的身影已变成个黝黑健壮的女人在织毛线。
• His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth.
  他的精神就此一下升腾起来，比起被悲惨心境压得匍匐在地时，更近地看到了天空的景色。
• Unless we start fully funding our educational system and stop attacking teachers, we will all be grovelling to China.
  除非我们开始全力支持本国的教育系统，不在攻击教师。否则我们将要向中国卑躬屈膝。
• The difference is that when they do, you can usually have them grovelling, because they know that you can take your business elsewhere.
  不同点在于，当他们这么做时，你通常可以让他们表现得低声下气，因为他们知道，你可以把业务转移到别处。