词族 · prostrate
中文词源
prostrate 俯伏，拜倒
来自拉丁语prostratus,俯伏的，来自prosternere,俯伏，拜倒，来自pro-,向前，sternere,展开，张开，词源同stratum,structure.
英语词源
- prostrate
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prostrate: see strata
- prostrate (adj.)
- mid-14c., "lying face-down" (in submission, worship, etc.), from Latin prostratus, past participle of prosternere "strew in front, throw down," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + sternere "to spread out," from PIE root *stere- "to spread, extend, stretch out" (see structure (n.)). Figurative use from 1590s. General sense of "laid out, knocked flat" is from 1670s.
- prostrate (v.)
- early 15c., prostraten, "prostrate oneself," from prostrate (adj.). Related: Prostrated; prostrating.
权威例句
- 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. Percy was lying prostrate, his arms outstretched and his eyes closed.
- 珀西闭着眼四仰八叉地平躺着。
- 3. I was prostrate with grief.
- 我当时痛不欲生。
- 4. They fell prostrate in worship.
- 他们拜倒在地。
- 5. She was prostrate on the floor.
- 她俯卧在地板上.