prostrate
prostrate 英 [ˈprɒstreɪt] 美 [ˈprɑstreɪt]
adj. 俯卧的；拜倒的；降伏的；沮丧的 vt. 使…屈服；将…弄倒；使…俯伏
进行时:prostrating 过去式:prostrated 过去分词:prostrated 第三人称单数:prostrates 名词复数:prostrates
- The verb prostrate means "to make helpless or defenseless." Illness, injury, food poisoning, grief — any of these things can prostrate people, or lying down in a helpless position.
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- adj. 俯卧的；拜倒的；降伏的；沮丧的
- vt. 使…屈服；将…弄倒；使…俯伏
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1. No Italian banks went bust, and rather than having to prostrate itself before the IMF or the EU, Italy became one of the biggest contributors to rescue funds for troubled European economies.
意大利银行没有一家宣布破产，也没有一家向IMF或EU低头要钱，相反意大利成为欧洲问题经济救助基金中最大的共享者之一。
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2. Silently, they prostrate themselves before the abbot, while he scribbles down their new monastic names.
他们安静的跪拜在主持的身前，而主持正在潦草的写下他们新的僧侣名字。
- prostrate (adj.) mid-14c., "lying face-down" (in submission, worship, etc.), from Latin prostratus, past participle of prosternere "strew in front, throw down," from pro "before, forth" (see pro-) + sternere "to spread out, lay down, stretch out," from nasalized form of PIE root *stere- "to spread." Figurative use from 1590s. General sense of "laid out, knocked flat" is from 1670s.
- prostrate (v.) early 15c., prostraten, "prostrate oneself," from prostrate (adj.). Related: Prostrated; prostrating.
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