kowtow

kowtow什么意思,kowtow翻译

基本解释

v.: 磕头；叩头；卑躬屈膝；唯命是从
n.: 磕头
网络: 顿首；跪拜；叩首

权威解释

• 叩头；磕头；卑躬屈膝；唯命是从:

  to show sb in authority too much respect and be too willing to obey them

英汉解释

• 〔汉语〕 叩头,磕头

• 拍马屁;奉承

• 叩头;卑躬屈节

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：kowtows

• 现在分词：kowtowing

• 过去分词：kowtowed

同义词

v.kneelbowgenuflectprostrate oneselfsalaamn.genuflectionprostrationhomageobeisance

例句

• When the head of the giant software corporation refused to kowtow to the swami, he was promptly transformed into a little bug.

  当这个软件巨头公司的老板拒绝象神像磕头时，他马上被变作了一只小虫子。

• They saw in it a willingness by the new left-of-centre government to kowtow to Beijing.

  他们认为这是中左翼的新政府有意向中国政府卑躬屈节。

• But it had served the bank well enough since 1992, when the takeover of Midland in the UK meant HSBC had to kowtow to local rules.

  但自1992年以来，这种结构在汇丰发挥了良好的效用。当时，汇丰为了收购英国的米德兰银行（Midland），不得不向当地法规低头。

• He had no competence whatsoever because all he did was kowtow his way up the corporate ladder.

  他只靠拍马屁来升职，根本没有实力可言。

• Forced to bow his head in the ritual kowtow, he kept trying to raise it.

  在被迫低头行通常的那种磕头礼后，他总是努力再抬起头来。

• She has a wide influence there with millions of believers. Even politicians go and call on her. Some of them go so far as to kowtow to her.

  台湾有个尼姑叫澄严法师，她的影响力在台湾非常大，有几百万信徒，政治人物都要去拜访她，有的还向她磕头。

• Mr Abe would back away from Mr Koizumi"s pledge to visit Yasukuni without appearing to kowtow to China, he said.

  他表示，安倍将在不显得是屈从于中国压力的情况下，放弃小泉参拜靖国神社的承诺。

• Zhuji people burn pine smoke kowtow to the gods, prayers read, easy to play sharp bamboo shuttle to the axillary stabbed cattle.

  主祭人烧松烟向天神磕头、念祷词后，便于挥锋利的竹梭向牛腋猛刺。

• The British envoy was represented as bearing tribute to the Son of Heaven, and his refusal to kowtow was put down to outlandish ignorance.

  这位不列颠使者没有向“天之子”表达敬意，也拒绝行使叩头这种蒙昧的礼节。

• ADAPTING a novel for the stage requires courage, vision and a spirit that refuses to kowtow to the original author.

  将一本小说搬上舞台需要勇气、见识以及拒绝向原作者卑躬屈膝的精神。