单词 | prone |
释义 | prone I. 1. < drivers suspected of being accident prone > — used with to < man is prone to error > < those industries that are most prone to periods of depression — J.A.Hobson > < when courts are so very prone to stand upon their dignity — H.G.Wells > 2. obsolete 3. archaic < prone submission to the heavenly will — Robert Browning > 4. a. < a prone position > < the upper side of a prone or horizontal animal — W.E.Swinton > — distinguished from supine b. 5. archaic < a prone and savage necessity, not worth the name of marriage — John Milton > Synonyms: < if we ourselves lie prone upon the floor we can exemplify the characteristic relationship, for our internal cavity is nearest to the floor, above it is our backbone — W.E.Swinton > < Her Majesty, prone but queenly, stretched out on the deck … to try her hand at target shooting — Time > supine applies to a position with the back against a supporting surface, the face upward, and suggests lethargic abjectness or inertness < lying supine in the bottom of the canoe and staring upward at the immaculate azure of the sky — Elinor Wylie > < jaded people lolling supine in carriages — G.B.Shaw > prostrate applies to full-length proneness as in submission, fear, or helplessness; it may also apply to any horizontal position brought about by fall, weakness, or shock and inability to use and act < prostrate in homage, on her face, silent — Gordon Bottomley > < lying prostrate on my chest, I took a long draught of clear cold water — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < stood over the bloody and prostrate form — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > recumbent may apply to lying down in any position of comfortable repose < if the patient is greatly weakened or prostrated, he must be kept reasonably warm, recumbent — Morris Fishbein > < recumbent upon the brown pine-droppings — George Meredith > couchant and dormant, mainly technical heraldic terms in the senses here involved, apply to a prone body position, the former suggesting that the head is raised as if in watchfulness, the latter that it is lowered in sleep. Synonym: see in addition liable. II. |
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