kotow

1 Shorn of diplomatic kotowing and compliments and circumlocutions, it is exactly what the Mikado's representative served to the representatives of three great governments—Uncle Sam's, John Bull's, Miss Canada's.

2 From the date of his landing at Tientsin, he was persistently told that unless he agreed to perform the kotow, he could not possibly be permitted to an audience.

3 The smile returned to her face, and her body bent in a kind of kotow.

4 The great gates were thrown open and there in the gateway the female members of the family knelt and kotowed as the chair passed by.

5 After you've worked ten years over books with your own name on them, you'll be received and kotowed to by people who wouldn't crook a finger to know me.

6 Ah! how honest Allan smirks and smiles, and becks and bows, with a backbone that will never be as supple in kotowing to anyone else.

7 And here we are again, all kotowing to the Golden Calf!

8 Now, nobody ever kotows to us at home.

9 Lord Amherst was even subjected to personal indignity and insult for refusing to perform the kotow or prostration before the Emperor.

10 “Come to the parlour,” she said to Ling Foo, who was smiling and kotowing.

11 D' ye think I care if you want to kneel and kotow like other idiots?

12 They both kotowed as they switched off to the baggage-room, the Ring Master bowing even lower than my roommate.

13 Later we ladies were invited into the room, where the Chinese all kotowed.

14 On roadside and street toddling images meet, And smirk and kotow in a way that is sweet; Their obis are tied with particular pride, Their silken kimonos hang scant to the feet.

15 He is to fall upon his knees at a word of command, and kotow with intermittent sequence to a great variety of persons, until his knees are stiff and his legs lame.

16 Then the commissioners wanted to know if he would wear the Chinese dress, if all the powers would have only one minister, and if he would make the kotow?

17 Its name is not unfamiliar even to persons in England who have never visited China, and whose ideas about the country are limited to a confused jumble of pigtails, birds'-nest soup, and the kotow.

18 In view of the surprise, laughter, and criticism of Europe, the Emperor modified his demand for the "kotow" to its symbolic performance by three deep bows.

19 How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!

20 Even in the midst of a mess like this we'll have to kotow to his rank or he'll probably be reporting us.

1 磕头

kowtow

2 叩头

kowtow

3 顺从

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4 拍马屁

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5 恭服

kowtow

6 奉承

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