grovel

大学 FREQ #23943

vi. 趴, 匍匐, 卑躬屈膝

发音

US /ˈɡrɒvəl/

词形变化

groveled groveling grovelled grovelling grovels 三单 grovels groveling 现在分词 grovelling 现在分词 groveled 过去式 groveled 过去分词 grovelled 过去式 grovelled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

匍匐；卑躬屈膝；趴

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To be prone on the ground.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To crawl.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To abase oneself before another person.

    不及物

    She refused to grovel in front of the bully, standing her ground.

  4. 4.

    To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.

    不及物

    He had to grovel before his boss after missing the important meeting.

    He hated to grovel, but he knew it was the only way to save his job.

  5. 5.

    To take pleasure in mundane activities.

    不及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 5

crawl creep fawn cower cringe

上位词 2

bend flex

词源

From Middle English *grovelen, from Old Norse grufla, grœfla (“to grovel”), from Proto-Germanic *grubilōną (“to dig, delve into”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ‑ (“to dig, scrape, scrabble, scratch”); akin to Old Norse á grufu (“on one's belly”) ( > Old Norse grúfa (“to lie face down, grovel”)). Cognate with Scots grovel, gruvil (“to grovel”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”), Norwegian Nynorsk gruvla (“to grovel”). Compare also West Frisian groebeltsje (“to make a mess, skip school, skive”), Dutch grobbelen (“to grope, root, grub”).

来源：wiktionary