groveling

柯林斯詞典

AM groveling, groveled

1. V-I 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. 卑躬屈膝[表不滿]
I don't grovel to anybody. 我對(duì)誰(shuí)都不會(huì)卑躬屈膝。
Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to grovel. 發(fā)言者完全被叫嚷聲壓住了，教室一片混亂，老師們不得不低聲下氣。
2. V-I If you grovel, you crawl on the ground, for example in order to find something. 爬行 (找東西等)
We grovelled around the room on our knees. 我們?cè)诜块g到処爬著尋找。