kowtowing

英 [ˌkaʊˈtaʊɪŋ]

美 [ˌkaʊˈtaʊɪŋ]

v.  叩头; 磕头; 卑躬屈膝; 唯命是从
kowtow的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 叩头;磕头；卑躬屈膝；唯命是从
  If you say that someonekowtows tosomeone else, you are criticizing them because they are too eager to obey or be polite to someone in authority.
  1. See how stupidly they kow-tow to persons higher in the hierarchy.
     瞧他们对上级唯命是从的样子是多么愚蠢啊。

双语例句

• He didn't go home that night, but spent his time kowtowing, telling the Buddha Amitabha's name, and reciting sutras.
  那天晚上他没回家，而是不停地叩头、念佛、诵经。
• To drop the case would risk looking as if he were kowtowing to Berlin.
  如果放弃，德古赫特将冒着被扣上“向德国人卑躬屈膝”帽子的风险。
• He's the dark creature inhabiting repressed, frustrated Japanese psyches, who instead of bowing and kowtowing, is allowed to mutilate his way through twisted, dysfunctional, millennial Japan.
  有别于弓腰叩首的传统形象，他在压抑、受挫的日式精神中栖身，在扭曲失调的千年日本里横冲直撞。
• Some countries, however, indicated their unhappiness at the kowtowing to China.
  一些国家则因为屈从于中国表达了不满。
• He has hare-brained ideas and to my disgust all my colleagues are kowtowing to him.
  他的想法轻率浮躁，而且令我厌恶的是，我所有的同事都拍他马屁。
• Ten months before the2008 Games begin in Beijing, a new and grueling Olympic sport is in full swing among foreign nationals living in China: advanced kowtowing.
  距离2008年北京奥运会开幕还有10个月时间，不过生活在中国的不少外国人正在起劲地参加在华外国人奥运火炬手的选拔活动。
• But as US politics demonstrate, the capture of a party by its activists can be more sinister even than kowtowing to the rich.
  不过正像美国政治所显示的，一个政党由党内活跃分子把持，可能比政党向富人卑躬屈膝更可怕。
• Numerous devout men and women are kowtowing and praying.
  许多善男信女在磕头祈祷。
• For four thousand years the Chinese people have been kowtowing before their ancestral tombs, seeking an answer to life in the past.
  四千年以来，中国人民一直是向祖先坟墓磕头膜拜，寻求过去生活的答案。
• Lawyers kowtowing to a judge;
  讨好法官的律师们；