cringing

Their servile lives were spent in grovelling and cringing and toiling and running about like little dogs at the behest of their numerous masters.

他们卑躬屈节的一生是在拍马奉承、拼命干活中度过的，他们象小狗般的奔走在无数主人膝下。

She even disgraces the name of Linton; and I've sometimes relented, from pure lack of invention, in my experiments on what she could endure, and still creep shamefully cringing back!

她甚至都玷辱了林惇的名声，我试验她能忍受的能力，而她总还是含羞地谄媚地爬回来，由于实在想不出新的办法，我有时候都动了慈悲心肠哩！