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 typhoon prostrated hundreds of trees.
  台风吹倒了数百棵树。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The statue before which they prostrated themselves in adoration.
  他们匍匐崇拜的神像。
• He was prostrated by the loss of his wife.
  他因丧妻而忧戚。
• 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。
• 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。
• Into Simon's house sickness had entered, fever in a deadly form had prostrated his mother-in-law, and as soon as Jesus came they told him of the sad affliction, and he hastened to the patient's bed.
  病痛进了彼得的家，致命的热病使他的岳母卧床不起。当耶稣到那里之后，他们就把这一件悲痛的事告诉了他，他立即走到病床之前。
• The wretched slaves prostrated themselves before their master.
  可怜的奴隶们拜倒在他们的主人面前。