Grovel

(adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.

(adv.) To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.

校对:拉弗尔斯

• Are you to be happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• And am I to grovel in the dust for HIM to walk over? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Do you see those grovelling and wandering eyes? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And she felt she could not bear it any more, in a few minutes she would fall down at his feet, grovelling at his feet, and letting him destroy her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The feeble voice of those grovelling passions cannot extend so far either in time or distance. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I Presently the rude Real burst coarsely in--all evil grovelling and repellent as she too often is. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The whole indecorous threadbare ruin, from the broken shoes to the prematurely-grey scanty hair, grovelled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And he who grovels in the world of sense, and has only this uncertain perception of things, is not a philosopher, but a lover of opinion only. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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