suppliant
英 ['sʌplɪənt] 美 [ˈsʌpliənt]

adj.

恳求的，哀求的，谦卑的；

n.

恳求者，哀求者；

变形

复数：suppliants

英英释义

suppliant[ 'sʌpliənt ]

• n.one praying humbly for something

  "a suppliant for her favors"

  同义词：petitionersupplicantrequester

• adj.humbly entreating

  "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"

  同义词：supplicantsupplicatory

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. He asked for help in a suppliant attitude.
   他以恳求的态度要我帮忙。

用作名词(n.)

1. He knelt as a suppliant at the altar.
   他跪在祭坛前祈祷。

权威例句

SUPPLIANT
Euripides : Suppliant women
Suppliant and Saviour: Oedipus at Colonus
The Staging of Suppliant Plays
Euripides: Suppliant Women; Electra; Heracles
Euripides’ Suppliant Women, Theseus and Athenocentrism 1)
The Suppliant Women and the Herakleidai of Euripides: I. The Suppliant Women
The ἧθος of Theseus in 'The Suppliant Women'
Euripides: Suppliant Women. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy by Ian C. Storey
Eschyle, tome I (~~Suppliantes, Perses, Sept contre Thèbes, Prométhée enchaîné~~), texte établi et traduit par Paul Mazon, 1920