[每日] genuflect (v) 屈膝
Word of the Day (Sunday October 26, 2008)
genuflect \JEN-yuh-flekt\, intransitive verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/9a50u
1. To bend the knee or touch one knee to the ground, as in worship.
2. To be servilely respectful or obedient; to grovel.
After graduation I talked my way into a job at Ionic Development
Corporation, a legendary place in Cambridge on the Charles River,
a huge brick building with a lobby the size of a cathedral; every
time I walked in, I felt as if I should genuflect.
-- Daniel Lyons, Dog Days
People worship capital, adore its aura, genuflect before Porsches
and Tokyo land values.
-- Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (translated by Alfred
Birnbaum)
Chen said recently he was proud to be a Chinese, a signal to
Beijing that he is willing to be conciliatory. The communists,
however, apparently want him to genuflect more unambiguously.
-- Sin-Ming Shaw, "Give This Guy a Break!", Time Asia, October 30,
2000
Genuflect is from Late Latin genuflectere, from Latin genu, "knee"
+ flectere, "to bend."
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