• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 柯林斯词典释义
例句
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • 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.
    例句
    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。
  • 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.
    例句
    We grovelled around the club on our knees. 我们趴在俱乐部的地上四处找。