| 单词 | prostrate |
| 释义 | pros·trate I. 1. a. < smite the tax-gatherer, but fall prostrate at the feet of the contemptible prince for whom the tax-gatherer plies his trade — H.T.Buckle > b. < quickly stooping I once more drove my weapon to the hilt in his prostrate form — W.H.Hudson †1922 > c. < clambered over half-visible rocks, fell over prostrate trees — Willa Cather > 2. < prostrate with fear > < a whole continent prostrate and impoverished — Andrew Shonfield > 3. < a subalpine species, usually shrubby or prostrate in habit — William Dallimore & A.B.Jackson > Synonyms: see prone II. 1. < prostrated his opponent with one blow > 2. a. < half prostrated himself in something between an obeisance and an embrace — Claud Cockburn > b. < the whole town had to prostrate itself in official apology — Claudia Cassidy > 3. a. < the financial panic that had prostrated the East with the suddenness of a natural catastrophe — American Guide Series: Michigan > b. < prostrated with grief > < prostrated by the loss of his wife — C.S.Lewis > c. < prostrated by an attack of bilious fever — E.S.Bates > |
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