to bow

基本解释

Anybody who refused to bow was thrown into prison without trial.
任何拒绝鞠躬的人不经审判，就被投入监狱。
The couple once touched their countrymen's hearts by getting down on the ground to bow to those made homeless by a disaster.
这对夫妻曾在因灾难而无家可归的人们面前鞠躬，此举曾一度打动了他们国民的心。
He tried to bow his fiddle but always missed.
他试着用弓拉小提琴，但总是拉偏了。

What do we need of them? We are the gods now!" This disobedience this refusal to bow down in grateful prayer does not sit well up on Olympus.
The first statements, either one through four or one through five depending on your counting, but the first group of statements concern Israel's relationship with her suzerain, with God. She's to be exclusively faithful to God. She's not to bow down to any manmade image.
第一部分声明包括前四条还是前五条,取决于你的数法，它是有关,以色列人和她的宗主她的上帝之间的关系的，她应该,把上帝当作唯一的信仰，而不能敬拜任何人造的偶像。
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Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.
撒旦认为对上帝放低身段，屈膝承欢，并认可他的力量实在是可耻的，但是这种屈从之所以是耻辱,并非是因为通常身段被贬低时会感到耻辱。
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There is no incentive for those with nothing to lose to bow out gracefully.
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