单词kowtow
v.: 磕头；叩头；卑躬屈膝；唯命是从
n.: 磕头
网络: 顿首；跪拜；叩首
叩头；磕头；卑躬屈膝；唯命是从:
to show sb in authority too much respect and be too willing to obey them
〔汉语〕 叩头,磕头
拍马屁;奉承
叩头;卑躬屈节
第三人称单数：kowtows
现在分词：kowtowing
过去分词：kowtowed
v.kneelbowgenuflectprostrate oneselfsalaamn.genuflectionprostrationhomageobeisance
When the head of the giant software corporation refused to kowtow to the swami, he was promptly transformed into a little bug.
当这个软件巨头公司的老板拒绝象神像磕头时，他马上被变作了一只小虫子。
They saw in it a willingness by the new left-of-centre government to kowtow to Beijing.
他们认为这是中左翼的新政府有意向中国政府卑躬屈节。
But it had served the bank well enough since 1992, when the takeover of Midland in the UK meant HSBC had to kowtow to local rules.
但自1992年以来，这种结构在汇丰发挥了良好的效用。当时，汇丰为了收购英国的米德兰银行（Midland），不得不向当地法规低头。
He had no competence whatsoever because all he did was kowtow his way up the corporate ladder.
他只靠拍马屁来升职，根本没有实力可言。
Forced to bow his head in the ritual kowtow, he kept trying to raise it.
在被迫低头行通常的那种磕头礼后，他总是努力再抬起头来。
She has a wide influence there with millions of believers. Even politicians go and call on her. Some of them go so far as to kowtow to her.
台湾有个尼姑叫澄严法师，她的影响力在台湾非常大，有几百万信徒，政治人物都要去拜访她，有的还向她磕头。
Mr Abe would back away from Mr Koizumi"s pledge to visit Yasukuni without appearing to kowtow to China, he said.
他表示，安倍将在不显得是屈从于中国压力的情况下，放弃小泉参拜靖国神社的承诺。
Zhuji people burn pine smoke kowtow to the gods, prayers read, easy to play sharp bamboo shuttle to the axillary stabbed cattle.
主祭人烧松烟向天神磕头、念祷词后，便于挥锋利的竹梭向牛腋猛刺。
The British envoy was represented as bearing tribute to the Son of Heaven, and his refusal to kowtow was put down to outlandish ignorance.
这位不列颠使者没有向“天之子”表达敬意，也拒绝行使叩头这种蒙昧的礼节。
ADAPTING a novel for the stage requires courage, vision and a spirit that refuses to kowtow to the original author.
将一本小说搬上舞台需要勇气、见识以及拒绝向原作者卑躬屈膝的精神。