记忆方法
音：哥饶我、跪饶我。
2. creep => grovel.
3. 谐音“哥裸卧、哥挪卧”-----哥哥俯卧着、匍匐着挪动。哥哥赤裸着卧倒。
2. creep => grovel.
3. 谐音“哥裸卧、哥挪卧”-----哥哥俯卧着、匍匐着挪动。哥哥赤裸着卧倒。
中文词源
grovel 卑躬曲膝
词源同creep, 爬。
英语词源
- grovel
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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.
权威例句
- 1. 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。
- 2. I don't grovel to anybody.
- 我对谁都不会卑躬屈膝。
- 3. Don't grovel — stick up for yourself!
- 你别卑躬屈膝──要自卫!
- 4. He said he would never grovel before a conqueror.
- 他说他永远不会在征服者脚下摇尾乞怜.
- 5. She will not grovel to anyone.
- 她不会向任何人屈服.
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