prostrate

英 ['prɒstreɪt] 美 ['prɑstret]

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※ 提供单词"prostrate"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

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.

prostrate: 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.

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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。