grovel
vi. 卑躬屈節,奴顏婢膝; 趴
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...
我對誰都不會卑躬屈膝。
Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to grovel.
發言人的聲音被叫嚷聲蓋住了,課堂一片混亂,老師們不得不好言相勸。
If you grovel, you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something.
We grovelled around the club on our knees.
我們趴在俱樂部的地上四處找。
1. show submission or fear
Maybe if I really grovel, he will pass me.
如果我真的去說說好話,也許他(老師)會讓我及格.
Pessimistic persons would like to grovel on the floor rather than meet the challenge.
悲觀的人寧肯永遠趴在地上也不願迎接挑戰。
She will not grovel to anyone.
她不會向任何人屈服.
Manager : Ah! The famous Monsieur poirot. I grovel in mortification, I grovel !
喬德利: 啊,著名的波洛先生,我未免太失敬了, 失敬 了.
You will just have to grovel to the bank manager for a loan.
你只得低聲下氣地向銀行經理借貸.