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

• In a course of 10 to 14 days the sick cattle may become prostrated and comatose and finally die.
  在10～14天过程中，病牛衰竭和昏迷，最后死亡。
• 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。
• The gale prostrated many trees.
  疾风吹倒了许多树。
• He prostrated himself before rank and wealth.
  他屈服于地位和财富。
• She was prostrated with fear at seeing him.
  她一见他就胆颤心惊。
• He was expecting to find her prostrated by the tragedy.
  他以为这场悲剧会使她一蹶不振。
• I have a horror of the memory of men whose history is written in blood; and this mosque, with its gorgeous rugs and hanging lamps and prostrated worshipers, is a crawly place, after all.
  我回想到一群人，他们的历史由鲜血书写，我不由得感到恐惧，总之，这个清真寺，巨大的地毯，悬垂的灯，匍匐的礼拜者，无不让人感到惊恐。
• The captives prostrated themselves before the conqueror.
  俘虏们俯伏在征服者面前。
• Women used to be in a state of subjection, but now they win their rights over successfully. He prostrated himself before rank and wealth.
  妇女们曾经处于屈从的地位，现在她们成功地赢得了自己的权利。
• 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。