| 词组 | prostrate |
| 释义 | prostrate Some commentators say that prostrate should be confined to the meaning "lying face down." This same issue is frequently raised about prone (see prone, supine) but less often about prostrate, which is just as well since prostrate often simply means "lying down." Like prone, it is sometimes used of inanimate objects that have no faces to be up or down: • He clambered over half-visible rocks, fell over prostrate trees —Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927 When used to describe the position of a person, prostrate implies "face down" only when the person is prostrate in adoration or submission. Otherwise the direction the person faces is unimportant—even in medical sources where terminology is precise. • Prostrate in homage, on her face, silent —Gordon Bottom ley, King Lear's Wife, 1915 • ... it requires the patient... to assume the prostrate or horizontal position —Warren H. Cole & Robert Elman, Textbook of General Surgery, 6th ed., 1952 • ... not even more brandy could revive the prostrate form of the vanquished boy —J. A. Maxtone Graham, Sports Illustrated, 15 July 1968 |
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