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

• 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。
• Who wants to live their life cowering in fear?
  谁想终生生活在恐惧当中？
• 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。
• He's cowering behind the strike line like a little girl.
  他还像小女孩一样退在罢工的警戒线之后。
• 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。
• 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。
• Which means that, while I was playing sports and auditioning for musicals in a Connecticut middle school, she was cowering in a bomb shelter five nights out of seven, trying not to die.
  也就是说，当我在康乃狄克州的中学进行体育活动、参加音乐剧试演的时候，她则一个礼拜有五天晚上躲在防空洞壕里免于一死。
• 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。
• The curtains were thrown back to reveal a small boy cowering by the French windows.
  拉开窗帘，露出一个小男孩子，蜷缩在落地窗旁。
• The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
  被掳去的快得释放、必不死而下坑.他的食物、也不致缺乏。