🙇truckle (トラクル)

verb
/ˈtrʌk.əl/
従う (shitagau)

意味

To submit or yield obsequiously to someone in power.
意味の翻訳
権力を持っている人に対して、卑屈に服従または屈服すること。
Kenryoku wo motte iru hito ni taishite, hikutsuni fukujū mata wa kufuku suru koto.

例文

He refused to truckle to the demands of the corrupt officials.

彼は腐敗した役人の要求に従うことを拒否した。
Kare wa fuhai shita yakunin no yōkyū ni shitagau koto wo kyohi shita.

同義語

submit, yield, bow, surrender, obey

対義語

resist, defy, oppose

コロケーション

truckle to authority, truckle under pressure, refuse to truckle

関連語彙

to connect someone or something in your mind with another person or thing
To persuade someone not to do something.
To link things together in a series or chain.
To thrust or force something downward or outward.
to copy the behavior or manner of someone or something
to dig up something buried, especially a body

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