in AM, use 美国英语用 groveling, groveled
- 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.
- 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。 - ...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 you grovel, you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something.
- We grovelled around the club on our knees.
我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。