grovel

英 美['ɡrɑvl]
  • vi. 匍匐;卑躬屈膝;趴

GRETEM8擴展詞匯

詞態變化


第三人稱單數:?grovels;過去式:?grovelled;過去分詞:?grovelled;現在分詞:?grovelling;形容詞:?grovelling;

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音:哥饒我、跪饒我。
2. creep => grovel.
3. 諧音“哥裸臥、哥挪臥”-----哥哥俯臥著、匍匐著挪動。哥哥赤裸著臥倒。

中文詞源


grovel 卑躬曲膝

詞源同creep, 爬。

英文詞源


grovel
grovel: [16] Old and Middle English had a suffix -ling, used for making adverbs denoting direction or condition. Few survive, and of those that do, most have had their -ling changed to the more logical-sounding -long (headlong and sidelong, for instance, used to be headling and sideling; darkling still hangs on – just – unchanged).

Among them was grovelling, an adverb meaning ‘face downwards’ based on the phrase on grufe ‘on the face or stomach’, which in turn was a partial translation of Old Norse á grúfu, literally ‘on proneness’ (grúfu may be related to English creep). It was not long before grovelling came to be regarded as a present participle, and the new verb grovel was coined from it.

=> creep
grovel (v.)
1590s, Shakespearean back-formation from groveling "on the face, prostrate" (mid-14c.), also used in Middle English as an adjective but probably really an adverb, from gruffe, from Old Norse grufe "prone" + obsolete adverbial suffix -ling (which survives also as the -long in headlong, sidelong). The Old Norse word is found in liggja à grufu "lie face-down," literally "lie on proneness." Old Norse also had grufla "to grovel," grufa "to grovel, cower, crouch down." The whole group is perhaps related to creep (v.). Related: Groveled; grovelled; groveling; grovelling.

雙語例句


1. 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。

來自柯林斯例句

2. I don't grovel to anybody.
我對誰都不會卑躬屈膝。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Don't grovel — stick up for yourself!
你別卑躬屈膝──要自衛!

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. He said he would never grovel before a conqueror.
他說他永遠不會在征服者腳下搖尾乞憐.

來自辭典例句

5. She will not grovel to anyone.
她不會向任何人屈服.

來自辭典例句

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