genuflection

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌdʒen.juˈflek.ʃən]
• 美式音标 [ˌdʒen.jəˈflek.ʃən]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. （虔诚地，诚恳地）跪拜，屈膝

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• He never pretended it was a genuflection to anything but commerce.
  他从来没有假装对任何东西屈膝过，除了商业。
• Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes away the muscles which walk and the will which advances.
  膜拜偶像或金钱会使支配行走的肌肉萎缩，使向上的意志衰退。
• "With all the genuflection to new media, people are watching just as much regular TV as they ever did," Professor Thompson says.
  “尽管对新媒体追捧有加，人们看电视的世界还是和以前一样多。” Thompson教授说。

权威例句

• We can bristle at the idea of chains and mass production, with their homogeneity, predictability, and constant genuflection to the value-for-money god.
  NEWYORKER: Big Med
• Vote because the enemy would be baffled and defeated by the sight of Iranians casting ballots, which was really a form of genuflection before the Supreme Leader.
  NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored
• Anderson Cooper closed one of five segments of his weeknightly CNN show that he recently devoted to attacking principally Rep. Michele Bachmann with a genuflection towards an iconic newsman, Edward R.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Anderson Cooper Crosses the Line

词组短语

短语

• genuflection and sitting 跪与坐

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• the act of genuflecting