grovelling

in AM, use 美国英语用 groveling, groveled


1. 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.
   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
2. 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.
   1. We grovelled around the club on our knees.
      我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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？
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. Squash those thoughts at once, and get grovelling.
   马上丢掉这些想法，夹起尾巴做人。
9. He received a letter of grovelling apology.
   一封奴颜婢膝认错的信。
10. He saw himself grovelling on the floor, screaming for mercy through broken teeth.
    他仿佛看到自己匍伏在地上，从打掉了牙的牙缝里大声呼救求饶。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。

adj

1. totally submissive

   Synonym:    cringinggrovelingwormlikewormy