Fawn

(noun.) a young deer.

(verb.) have fawns; 'deer fawn'.

(verb.) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; 'He is always kowtowing to his boss'.

(verb.) show submission or fear.

校对:米利森特

• Across the dewy meadows he bounded fawn-like, singing as gayly as the lark already saluting the sun in the fresh blue sky. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• On the other hand, he might give in, and fawn to her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• That mean, fawning fellow, worm himself into such promotion! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She played before me the amiable; offered me patte de velours; caressed, flattered, fawned on me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Instead of tearing me to pieces, as Sator Throg had desired, they fawned at my feet. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

编辑:诺拉