cowering

英 [ˈkaʊərɪŋ]

美 [ˈkaʊərɪŋ]

v.  (因恐惧而)蜷缩，畏缩，退缩
cower的现在分词

现在分词：cowering　复数：cowerings　

BNC.48419 / COCA.39232

柯林斯词典

• VERB (因恐惧而)蜷缩，畏缩
  If youcower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
  1. The hostages cowered in their seats.
     人质们蜷缩在座位上。

双语例句

• Who wants to live their life cowering in fear?
  谁想终生生活在恐惧当中？
• The child, terrified, sat cowering in a comer of the room.
  小孩因为害怕而畏缩在房间的角落里。
• There is an element of cowering before angry voters.
  对未来的胆怯是选民恼怒的原因之一。
• Do stop cowering! I'm not going to hit you.
  别退缩！我不会打你。
• Ma Yue's "Cowering People" displays the psychological and physical condition of the vulnerable people;
  马跃的“畏缩的人们”展现了易受伤害的人们的心理和身体状况；
• We were all representatives of a shadow society, cowering under a cloud of bad tidings that would never come.
  我们只是影子社会的芸芸众生，畏缩在永未实现的不测风云背后。
• She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the table, almost under the drinkers'feet.
  她弯下腰去，发现珂赛特蜷做一团，缩到桌子的那一头去了，几乎到了酒客们的脚底下。
• He stood over the cowering Herb with fists of fury.
  他紧握着两个拳头怒气冲天地站在惊魂未定的赫伯面前。
• The fox, who had attended the steps of his fell mistress, uttered a dismal howl, and ran cowering back to the inner cave.
  那只刚才跟在它的残忍的女主人后面走来的狐狸，发出一声凄厉的嚎叫，哆嗦着奔回洞窟里去。
• You have a vicious, greedy, unmerciful financial wolf standing over a cowering, unsophisticated commercial Lamb.
  你们看到了一只凶恶的、贪婪的、残忍的金融狼，俯视着一只畏缩的、朴实的商业羊。