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

• Any assessment of Mr Obama needs to acknowledge that when he was elected he inherited the in-box from Hell: a financial collapse, a prostrated economy, two wars.
  对奥巴马先生的任何评价都必须承认，当他当选的时候，他继承的是一个烂摊子：金融危机、萎靡不振的经济和两场战争。
• He was expecting to find her prostrated by the tragedy.
  他以为这场悲剧会使她一蹶不振。
• He prostrated himself before the golden statue.
  他拜倒在金色的塑像前。
• 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。
• The wretched slaves prostrated themselves before their master.
  可怜的奴隶们拜倒在他们的主人面前。
• 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。
• When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.
  扫罗回头观看，大卫就屈身，脸伏于地下拜。
• 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。
• When Lord Nrsimhadeva saw the small boy Prahlada Maharaja prostrated at the soles of His lotus feet, He became most ecstatic in affection toward His devotee.
  当主尼星哈戴瓦看到小男孩儿帕拉德大君拜倒在他的莲花足下的时候，祂处于对奉献者的爱的狂喜之中。
• She was prostrated when he died.
  他死了，她陷入极度的悲痛之中。