Grovel
['ɡrɑvl]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
(adv.) To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
校對:拉弗尔斯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Creep, crawl, sneak, fawn, cringe, lie low, lie prone.
校對:马蒂
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Crawl, cringe, wallow, creep, grub, fawn, grabble
ANT:Soar, aspire, mount, rise
伊妮德編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to crawl on the earth esp. in abject fear &c.: to be base or mean:—pr.p. grov′elling; pa.p. grov′elled.—n. Grov′eller.—adj. Grov′elling mean.
安德里亚錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Are you to be happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And am I to grovel in the dust for HIM to walk over? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Do you see those grovelling and wandering eyes? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- And she felt she could not bear it any more, in a few minutes she would fall down at his feet, grovelling at his feet, and letting him destroy her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The feeble voice of those grovelling passions cannot extend so far either in time or distance. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I Presently the rude Real burst coarsely in--all evil grovelling and repellent as she too often is. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The whole indecorous threadbare ruin, from the broken shoes to the prematurely-grey scanty hair, grovelled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And he who grovels in the world of sense, and has only this uncertain perception of things, is not a philosopher, but a lover of opinion only. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
博比編輯