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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was prostrated by the loss of his wife.
  他因丧妻而忧戚。
• 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。
• The typhoon prostrated hundreds of trees.
  台风吹倒了数百棵树。
• He was prostrated by illness.
  他因生病极为虚弱。
• They prostrated themselves before their king.
  他们向国王跪拜行礼。