prostrated

英 [prɒˈstreɪtɪd]

美 [ˈprɑːstreɪtɪd]

v.  俯伏; 拜倒; 使一筹莫展; 使无能为力
prostrate的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

The verb is pronounced /prɒ'streɪt, am 'prɑːstreɪt/. The adjective is pronounced /'prɒstreɪt/. 动词读作 /prɒ'streɪt, 美 'prɑːstreɪt/。形容词读作 /'prɒstreɪt/。


• VERB 使（自己）俯伏；使（自己）拜倒
  If youprostrate yourself, you lie down flat on the ground, on your front, usually to show respect for God or a person in authority.
  1. They prostrated themselves before their king.
     他们向国王跪拜行礼。
• ADJ 俯卧的；平卧的
  If you are lyingprostrate, you are lying flat on the ground, on your front.
  1. Percy was lying prostrate, his arms outstretched and his eyes closed.
     珀西闭着眼四仰八叉地平躺着。
• ADJ 衰竭的；沮丧的；一蹶不振的
  If someone isprostrate, they are so distressed or affected by a very bad experience that they are unable to do anything at all.
  1. Immediately after my father's death my stepmother was prostrate...
     我父亲死后，我的继母一下就垮了。
  2. I was prostrate with grief.
     我当时痛不欲生。
  3. ...his country's prostrate economy.
     他的国家一蹶不振的经济

双语例句

• The gale prostrated many trees.
  疾风吹倒了许多树。
• Emerging from Bangkok's airport after formally surrendering to police, Mr Thaksin prostrated himself, touching his forehead to the ground, hands clasped in a sign of respect, before briefly greeting throngs of cheering supporters.
  他信在正式向警方自首后出现在曼谷机场。他身体匍伏，前额触地，双手紧扣致敬。随后，他向一大群欢呼的支持者致以简短的问候。
• We want peace, but we will never be prostrated by the US power.
  中国人渴望着和平！但中国人决不向强权低。
• Winston was not hurt, only prostrated.
  温斯顿没有受到伤害，只是弄得精疲力尽。
• Like his father, when he finished handling over the kingdom affairs, he always came to the Chongsheng Temple and prostrated himself before the Buddha statues.
  和他的父亲一样，在处理完朝政的空隙，他也经常来崇圣寺拜佛。
• The wretched slaves prostrated themselves before their master.
  可怜的奴隶们拜倒在他们的主人面前。
• Although money worship and commodity fetishism, currency fetishism are the same in some respects, they are different form each other. Those who formerly prostrated themselves before the power of the gentry now bow before the power of the peasants.
  拜金主义虽与商品拜物教和货币拜物教相通，但却又不相同。从前拜倒在绅士权力下面的人，现在却拜倒在农民权力之下。
• Those who formerly prostrated themselves before the power of the gentry now bow before the power of the peasants.
  从前拜倒在绅士权力下面的人，现在却拜倒在农民权力之下。
• The country's industry prostrated.
  这个国家的工业衰退了。
• They prostrated themselves before their king.
  他们向国王跪拜行礼。