And we would all have to go down on our knees and grovel for it, while he would stand on the chair, and grunt, and want to know if he was to be kept there all the evening.
И всем нам не остается ничего другого, как опуститься на колени и ползать в поисках гвоздя, в то время как дядя Поджер стоит на стуле и ворчит и язвительно осведомляется, не собираемся ли мы продержать его так до поздней ночи.
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatДжером, Джером Клапка / Трое в лодке не считая собаки
By your conditions, you alone are kings and queens and lords and ladies of court. You alone matter, while the peasant grovels and kneels in the mud, and since you are 'rightful' in the eyes of this god or that, then the peasant cannot complain.
По вашим правилам лишь вы одни можете быть королями да королевами и нарядными вельможами двора, а крестьянам остается пасть на колени в грязь и пресмыкаться, да еще и не вздумать жаловаться, ведь это бог поставил вас над ними.
Salvatore, Robert / Road of the PatriarchСальваторе, Роберт / Дорога Патриарха
"I know for a fact about that gentleman," he continued in his ordinary voice, "that when he was summoned before the secret police, he groveled at the feet of the Countess Blazenkrampff and kept whining, 'Save me, intercede for me!'
- Про этого барина я достоверно знаю,- продолжал он обыкновенным своим голосом,- что когда Третье отделение его вызывало, он у графини Блазенкрампф в ногах ползал и все пищал: "Спасите, заступитесь!"
At meal times he would let the other men go first into the grub-boat, and then he would go down on his hands and knees, grovelling fiercely upon the ground where they had been sitting, trying to find some stray crumbs of tobacco.
В обед он предоставлял другим спешить на баржу, а сам, став на четвереньки, яростно ползал по земле, где сидели товарищи, стараясь найти упавшие крошки табаку.
O.Henry / Transformation of Martin BurneyГенри, О. / Превращение Мартина Барней
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grovel1/4
'grɔv(ə)lVerbлежать ниц; ползатьExamples
to grovel in the dirt — ползать в грязи
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Collocations
grovel obscenely
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Word forms
grovel
noun
Singular
Plural
Common case
grovel
*grovels
Possessive case
grovel's
*grovels'
grovel
verb
Basic forms
Past
groveled, grovelled
Imperative
grovel
Present Participle (Participle I)
groveling, grovelling
Past Participle (Participle II)
groveled, grovelled
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I grovel
we grovel
you grovel
you grovel
he/she/it grovels
they grovel
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am groveling, grovelling
we are groveling, grovelling
you are groveling, grovelling
you are groveling, grovelling
he/she/it is groveling, grovelling
they are groveling, grovelling
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have groveled, grovelled
we have groveled, grovelled
you have groveled, grovelled
you have groveled, grovelled
he/she/it has groveled, grovelled
they have groveled, grovelled
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been groveling, grovelling
we have been groveling, grovelling
you have been groveling, grovelling
you have been groveling, grovelling
he/she/it has been groveling, grovelling
they have been groveling, grovelling
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I groveled, grovelled
we groveled, grovelled
you groveled, grovelled
you groveled, grovelled
he/she/it groveled, grovelled
they groveled, grovelled
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was groveling, grovelling
we were groveling, grovelling
you were groveling, grovelling
you were groveling, grovelling
he/she/it was groveling, grovelling
they were groveling, grovelling
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had groveled, grovelled
we had groveled, grovelled
you had groveled, grovelled
you had groveled, grovelled
he/she/it had groveled, grovelled
they had groveled, grovelled
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been groveling, grovelling
we had been groveling, grovelling
you had been groveling, grovelling
you had been groveling, grovelling
he/she/it had been groveling, grovelling
they had been groveling, grovelling
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will grovel
we shall/will grovel
you will grovel
you will grovel
he/she/it will grovel
they will grovel
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be groveling, grovelling
we shall/will be groveling, grovelling
you will be groveling, grovelling
you will be groveling, grovelling
he/she/it will be groveling, grovelling
they will be groveling, grovelling
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have groveled, grovelled
we shall/will have groveled, grovelled
you will have groveled, grovelled
you will have groveled, grovelled
he/she/it will have groveled, grovelled
they will have groveled, grovelled
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been groveling, grovelling
we shall/will have been groveling, grovelling
you will have been groveling, grovelling
you will have been groveling, grovelling
he/she/it will have been groveling, grovelling
they will have been groveling, grovelling
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would grovel
we should/would grovel
you would grovel
you would grovel
he/she/it would grovel
they would grovel
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be groveling, grovelling
we should/would be groveling, grovelling
you would be groveling, grovelling
you would be groveling, grovelling
he/she/it would be groveling, grovelling
they would be groveling, grovelling
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have groveled, grovelled
we should/would have groveled, grovelled
you would have groveled, grovelled
you would have groveled, grovelled
he/she/it would have groveled, grovelled
they would have groveled, grovelled
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice