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词汇 kneel
释义 kneel
verb[ I ]
uk /niːl/ us /niːl/knelt or kneeled | knelt or kneeled
B2
to go down into, or stay in, a position where one or both knees are on the ground: 跪(下)
kneel (down)She knelt (down) beside the child.她在孩子身旁跪下。
He knelt in front of the altar and prayed.他跪在圣坛前祈祷。
At the end of the game, the quarterback kneeled with the ball to run out the clock.
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kneel | American Dictionary


kneel
verb[ I ]
us/nil/past tense and past participlekneltus/nelt/kneeled
to go down into, or stay in, a position where one or both knees are on the ground:
She knelt down to look under the bed for her doll.
Gibbons kneeled next to the plant and started digging.

Examples of kneel


kneel
Reception at the rails thus became a new device to tackle a longstanding dispute over kneeling at communion.
Whatever the ideas encapsulated, do the seated and kneeling figures represent historical persons as much as or more than they represent idealized events and concepts?
You should have seen him kneeling and praying when the rooms in the castle were already on fire around him.
When small groups of women began kneeling in prayer outside saloons in the 1870s, they met with derision.
It also asks them how often they have to lift heavy loads and stoop, kneel, or crouch at work.
We shall have less reason to kneel down before our present practices and more need to decide in which direction to change them.
He orders her to kneel on the floor to undo his pack of merchandise, saying, 'you are better thus'.
Then he drew her towards him and in a moment she was kneeling at his feet, with her face buried on his knees.
After all of them had arrived, they suddenly knelt down.
The participants include kneeling men, who are assistants of lower status, and woman who stand facing the ruler.
By that stage, rejection for any reason other than failure to kneel at communion was rather out of fashion.
Typical operational modes are kneeling or upright position of the operator while carefully digging in the soil.
Activities such as walking, stooping, kneeling or running may be ascribed culturally specific meanings, which in turn impact on their experience.
The words used-'kneel here', 'put your hands together'-were only adjuncts to the physical instruction.
In the lower row of the first register of the west wall, he kneels before a bowl and a tree; a small dog squats behind him.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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