on your knees

REGRET/FEEL SORRYin a way that shows you have no power but want or need something very much 跪下，乞求

He went on his knees begging for his job back.

他跪下来乞求恢复原来的工作。

Examples from the Corpus

on your knees• McAllister should be on his knees after a gruelling month at Elland Road.• Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.• When I saw him a week later he got down on his knees and asked me to forgive him what he done.• Painfully she wallows down on her knees and without diffidence soaps and rinses me all over.• He gave no trouble and sat with his head down and his elbows on his knees, hands loose and empty.• You know the lasting image: Hendrix on his knees, summoning fire from a flaming Stratocaster guitar.• Pearl had sat straight in her chair; her hands overturned on her knees.• But now the Captain was on his knees beside the coffin praying.

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单词	on your knees
释义	on your knees on your knees REGRET/FEEL SORRYin a way that shows you have no power but want or need something very much 跪下，乞求 He went on his knees begging for his job back. 他跪下来乞求恢复原来的工作。 Examples from the Corpus on your knees• McAllister should be on his knees after a gruelling month at Elland Road.• Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.• When I saw him a week later he got down on his knees and asked me to forgive him what he done.• Painfully she wallows down on her knees and without diffidence soaps and rinses me all over.• He gave no trouble and sat with his head down and his elbows on his knees, hands loose and empty.• You know the lasting image: Hendrix on his knees, summoning fire from a flaming Stratocaster guitar.• Pearl had sat straight in her chair; her hands overturned on her knees.• But now the Captain was on his knees beside the coffin praying. → on your knees at knee1(3)
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