cowed
英 [kaʊd]
美 [kaʊd]
adj. 使感到胆怯的; 自惭形秽的
v. 恐吓; 吓唬; 威胁; 胁迫
cow的过去分词和过去式
BNC.37062 / COCA.35294
牛津词典
adj.
- 使感到胆怯的；自惭形秽的
made to feel afraid and that you are not as good as sb else
柯林斯词典
- See also:He kept a few dairy cows...Dad went out to milk the cows....a herd of cows.cattle
- N-COUNT 雌性动物(如雌象、雌鲸等)
Some female animals, including elephants and whales, are calledcows.- ...a cow elephant.
雌象
- ...a cow elephant.
- 婆娘;娘儿们
If someone describes a woman as acow, they dislike her and think that she is unpleasant or stupid. - VERB 恐吓;威胁;把…吓住
If someoneis cowed, they are made afraid, or made to behave in a particular way because they have been frightened or badly treated.- The government, far from being cowed by these threats, has vowed to continue its policy.
该政府丝毫没有被这些威胁吓住，发誓要继续执行其政策。 - ...cowing them into submission.
胁迫他们顺从
- The government, far from being cowed by these threats, has vowed to continue its policy.
- PHRASE 很长时间;长期
If you say that someone can do somethinguntil the cows come home, but it will have no effect, you are emphasizing that it will have no effect even if they do it for a very long time.- You can initiate policies until the cows come home, but unless they're monitored at a senior level, you won't get results.
你可以花很长时间来制定政策，但除非高层对之进行监管，否则不会有效果。
- You can initiate policies until the cows come home, but unless they're monitored at a senior level, you won't get results.
- See also:mad cow diseasesacred cow
双语例句
- One of the men sipped from a glass of water, looking wary but not cowed.
其中一个人吸了瓶子里装的水，看起来机警而不懦弱。 - The battle of Britain had been his first defeat, and the malignant bombing of the cities had not cowed the nation or its Government.
大不列颠战役曾经是他第一次遇到的挫败，对城市进行的残酷轰炸没有吓倒这个国家或它的政府。 - People shouldn't allow themselves to be cowed into this.
人们不该让自己吓成这副模样。 - Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness.
情绪或态度谦逊；使人想起谦让的温和甚至是牛一般的柔顺。 - He is not the kind of child who is likely to be cowed into submission.
他并不是那种吓一吓就可能就范的孩子。 - But his investors were too trusting or too greedy to ask the right questions and US regulators were too cowed and too disorganised.
但他的投资者们过于轻信、或过于贪婪，没能问到关键的问题；而美国的监管机构则过于懦弱，做事也太没章法。 - The anger of such a woman, at such a moment, would have cowed even him.
这样一个女人在这样一个时刻的怒火，就连他也会吓坏的。 - She was cowed by his intelligence.
她被他的聪明才智给吓住了。 - His tragically cowed and battered wife.
他那位极度受惊并遭毒打的妻子。 - The protesters refused to be cowed into submission by the army.
抗议者拒绝向军队屈膝投降。