Truckle

(verb.) yield to out of weakness.

艾伯特整理

• He praises your hard spirit, your determined cast of mind, your scorn of low enemies, your resolution not 'to truckle to the mob,' as he says. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The house might be a good one, but Mr. Wrench was not going to truckle to anybody on a professional matter. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She was up from the truckle-bed directly, wildly feeling about her for her basket, and gazing at him in affright. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His pointing to the truckle bed in the corner, seemed gradually to bring that poor couch to Bradley's wandering remembrance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I said, the fault was in the men--men who truckle to lies and folly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Looking in, I saw a lighted candle on a table, a bench, and a mattress on a truckle bedstead. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And would you have me truckle to them? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

戴维斯整理