Curtsy

(noun.) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women.

(verb.) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; 'She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand'.

(verb.) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting.

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• He just moved, in acknowledgment of her curtsy, but did not rise. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Charley, with her best curtsy, blushingly tied on her bonnet and went her way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There was evidently nothing for it but to go, and Donne made his exodus, the heiress sweeping him a deep curtsy as she closed the gates on him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My Lady is looking charmingly well, says Mrs. Rouncewell with another curtsy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Miss Flite received the compliment with complacency and dropped a general curtsy to us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mrs. Rouncewell is in attendance and receives Sir Leicester's customary shake of the hand with a profound curtsy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And I made him my curtsy and left him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Waiting no comment, I curtsied to the trioand withdrew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As I passed close to the woman into whose hands I had placed my pound-note, she smiled and curtsied affectedly. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• You are out early, ma'am, said I as she curtsied to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I curtsied to a little blue-eyed fair man of youthful appearance with flaxen hair parted in the middle and curling at the ends all round his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And what good could his wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Their ladyships made three stately curtsies, and the elder lady to be sure gave her hand to the newcomer, but it was as cold and lifeless as marble. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Truly, there she was, immediately in front of us, curtsying, and smiling, and saying with her yesterday's air of patronage, The wards in Jarndyce! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I was not mad at that time, curtsying low and smiling between every little sentence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Now it was the little mad woman worn out with curtsying and smiling, now some one in authority at Bleak House. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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