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knelt

/nelt/US // nɛlt //UK // (nɛlt) //

跪在地上,跪下,跪着,跪下来

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : a simple past tense and past participle of kneel.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Women in the founding Christian movement were treated equally, and the poor knelt beside the rich.

  • Her tender face bent in compassion over a marble form so exquisitely pure that I knelt and signed myself.

  • He knelt beside Glover just as he once had by that injured boy back in Brooklyn.

  • Outside the courthouse, supporters of Martin's family jeered, wept, or knelt in prayer as the verdict came.

  • Harry also knelt on one knee and layed poppies at the grave of the unknown soldier as the last post was played.

  • What would a man think if his children knelt and begged for his love or for their daily bread?

  • A horrible foreboding gripped me, and I quickly knelt down and raised the dog's head.

  • He was flung down heavily, and pinned prone in a corner by one of those bullies who knelt on his spine.

  • Above the altar before which the priest knelt was an immense carving in imitation of an uprooted tree.

  • "Follow presently," was his parting command to the man who still knelt upon Rabecque, and with that he vanished too.