genuflect
verb /ˈdʒenjuflekt/
/ˈdʒenjuflekt/
(formal)动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they genuflect | /ˈdʒenjuflekt/ /ˈdʒenjuflekt/ |
| he / she / it genuflects | /ˈdʒenjuflekts/ /ˈdʒenjuflekts/ |
| past simple genuflected | /ˈdʒenjuflektɪd/ /ˈdʒenjuflektɪd/ |
| past participle genuflected | /ˈdʒenjuflektɪd/ /ˈdʒenjuflektɪd/ |
| -ing form genuflecting | /ˈdʒenjuflektɪŋ/ /ˈdʒenjuflektɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to move your body into a lower position by bending one or both knees, as a sign of respect in a church
（在教堂礼拜时）跪拜，单膝跪拜 - [intransitive] genuflect (to somebody/something) (disapproving) to show too much respect to somebody/something
卑躬屈膝
词源mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘bend (the knee)’): from ecclesiastical Latin genuflectere, from Latin genu ‘knee’ + flectere ‘to bend’.