cower

verb

1. （因恐惧而）蜷缩，畏缩，退缩
   to bend low and/or move backwards because you are frightened
   1. A gun went off and people cowered behind walls and under tables.
      一声枪响，人们缩到墙后或桌子底下躲起来。

1. VERB (因恐惧而)蜷缩，畏缩
   If you cower, 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。

1. The hostages cowered in their seats.
   人质们蜷缩在座位上。
2. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places.
   你的仇敌必投降你，你必踏在他们的高处。
3. He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places.
   他是你的盾牌，帮助你，是你威荣的刀剑；你的仇敌必投降你，你必踏在他们的高处。
4. When the day is done and the shadows cower under the trees, I shall come back in the dusk.
   一天完了，影子俯伏在树底下，我便要在黄昏中回家来。
5. Thou wilt not cower in the dust.
   你不会含屈忍辱畏缩不前。
6. Scarlett was so frightened by the bursting shells she could only cower helplessly, her hands over her ears, expecting every moment to be blown into eternity.
   炮弹四处开花，斯佳丽吓得只有两手掩耳、缩成一团，时刻提心吊胆，生怕一炮打来就会要了她的命。
7. Though I used to very afraid, I think I was very brave. I couldn't be cower.
   以前我虽然感到无比害怕，但我想我是勇敢的，我不会因此而退缩。
8. To trample upon practice is to cower before truth.
   对实践的专横就是对真理的恐惧。
9. To be cowardly under fire is understandable, but to cower when there is a world to be taught ( and to learn from) is contemptible.
   在炮火袭击下畏缩尚可理解，而面对一个需要教导（也可从中学习）的世界却当懦夫则是卑鄙的。
10. No need to cower behind a gate-post, indeed!
    没有必要躲在门柱后面畏缩不前了，真的！
11. Will the Chinese cower before difficulties when they are not afraid even of death?
    中国人死都不怕，还怕困难吗？
12. Whatever you do, don't cower, stammer or apologize.
    不论怎样，都不要畏缩、支吾或抱歉。
13. Death and Decay no longer has a cower component, but a glyph can add that back.
    死亡凋零不再有恐慌效果，死亡凋零雕文可以重新得到它。基础伤害应该会有提升。
14. Over the next few months, as the account manager watched co-workers cower under the boss's brow-beating, he realized that the tyrant fed on fear.
    在接下来的几个月里，这位会计主管看到同事们在老板的恫吓下战战兢兢地工作，（下属的）畏惧使得暴君式的老板变本加厉，越发得意。
15. And by love, I mean cower in terror from.
    说到喜欢，我指的其实是恐惧。
16. Cower before my true form!
    在我的真正形态下颤抖吧！
17. You cower when something wrong is going on.
    你在出现问题的时候退缩。
18. They don't cower when the boss comes around.
    当老板来到身边时，他们也不畏缩。
19. I will never cower before any master, nor bend to any threat.
    我绝不会在任何一位大师面前发抖，也不会为任何恐惧所屈服。
20. The cower unit of the eagle is a wellsorted lithic and glauconitic marine sandstone.
    伊格尔砂岩的下部单元是分选良好的岩屑质和海相海绿石质。
21. Then you will cower before a sorcerer!
    那么你会在巫师面前发抖！
22. The only product reviewers who need to cower behind an alias are those with an undeclared interest or with something to hide.
    只有那些有着不为人所知的利益或是不可告人的秘密的人，才需要在评论产品时畏缩在化名背后。
23. Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw ( never both).
    所有宠物可以学习低吼，爪击撕咬之一，畏缩。
24. This paper expounds a new method on confirming the location and magnitude of minimum transmission angle, which is based on the relationship of component length in designed plane cower four-bar linkage.
    阐述了在设计好的平面低副四杆机构中，由杆长关系确定最小传动角位置及大小的新方法。

  recoil cower flinch shrink【导航词义：退缩】

  recoil v. 〈书〉退缩，畏缩

〔辨析〕指因不喜欢或害怕某物而突然向后退，常用于 recoil from sb/sth 或recoil at sth 结构中。

  cower v. 退缩，畏缩

〔辨析〕指因害怕而蜷缩，常后接介词 against/under。

  flinch v. 退缩，畏缩

〔辨析〕指由于疼痛、害怕或烦恼而退缩或躲开，常用于 flinch at sth 或 flinch away from sb/sth 结构中。

  shrink v. 退缩，畏缩

〔辨析〕尤指因恐惧而退缩，通常后接副词 away/back。

verb

1. show submission or fear

   Synonym:    fawncrawlcreepcringegrovel

2. crouch or curl up
   1. They huddled outside in the rain

   Synonym:    huddle