英语词汇“supple knee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

supple knee n. literary referring to an obeisance, and usually implying insincerity, obsequiousness, or cowardice; cf. sense 7.Now chiefly echoing or alluding to quot. 1597 or quot. 1667.

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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 32 A brace of draimen bid, God speed him wel, And had the tribute of his supple knee .

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2829 It cost him nothing but a supple knee, And oyly mouth & much observancie.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 788 Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend The supple knee ?

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 16 Religion, publick Order, Both exact External Homage, and a supple Knee.

1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 127 Servility with supple knees, Whose trade it is to smile, to crouch, to please.

1829 Casket Jan. 41 A dandy's side arms are his whiskers; a Demagogue's his supple knees.

1864 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 299/1 Others, again,..had come to me with hat in hand and supple knees, to beg my permission to allow them to dramatize my novel.

1903 L. Cox City of Dead 57 Yet oft to cringe, on supple knees, Are office-seekers given.

1918 G. T. Raymond Uncensored Celebrities 110 People of every party think it the proper thing to pay him the tribute of their usually far from supple knees.

2004 D. S. Long & T. York in S. Hauerwas & S. Wells Blackwell Compan. Christian Ethics v. xxv. 339 Surely, ‘contract’ is safer than ‘gift’... It prevents us from ‘bending the supple knee’ before those who would seek our indebtedness.

单词	supple knee
释义	> as lemmas supple knee supple knee n. literary referring to an obeisance, and usually implying insincerity, obsequiousness, or cowardice; cf. sense 7.Now chiefly echoing or alluding to quot. 1597 or quot. 1667. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 32 A brace of draimen bid, God speed him wel, And had the tribute of his supple knee . View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2829 It cost him nothing but a supple knee, And oyly mouth & much observancie. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 788 Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend The supple knee ? View more context for this quotation 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 16 Religion, publick Order, Both exact External Homage, and a supple Knee. 1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 127 Servility with supple knees, Whose trade it is to smile, to crouch, to please. 1829 Casket Jan. 41 A dandy's side arms are his whiskers; a Demagogue's his supple knees. 1864 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 299/1 Others, again,..had come to me with hat in hand and supple knees, to beg my permission to allow them to dramatize my novel. 1903 L. Cox City of Dead 57 Yet oft to cringe, on supple knees, Are office-seekers given. 1918 G. T. Raymond Uncensored Celebrities 110 People of every party think it the proper thing to pay him the tribute of their usually far from supple knees. 2004 D. S. Long & T. York in S. Hauerwas & S. Wells Blackwell Compan. Christian Ethics v. xxv. 339 Surely, ‘contract’ is safer than ‘gift’... It prevents us from ‘bending the supple knee’ before those who would seek our indebtedness. extracted from suppleadj. < as lemmas
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