汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 低首下心
低首下心
to be fawningly submissive (idiom)
首 head / 下心 Succumb to others / Describe submission and submission
形容屈服顺从。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

当副官把这几个人从大臣办公室领进来又把他们领出去以后,有人让一个军官走进一扇可怕的房门里来,军官那低首下心的惊惶的样子使安德烈公爵大为愕异。

After several persons had been let in and let out of the minister's room by the adjutant, an officer was admitted at the dreadful door, whose abject and panic-stricken face had struck Prince Andrey.