cowering
英 [ˈkaʊərɪŋ]
美 [ˈkaʊərɪŋ]
v. (因恐惧而)蜷缩，畏缩，退缩
cower的现在分词
BNC.48419 / COCA.39232
柯林斯词典
- VERB (因恐惧而)蜷缩，畏缩
If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.- The hostages cowered in their seats.
人质们蜷缩在座位上。
- The hostages cowered in their seats.
双语例句
- 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。 - On the contrary, he thought he had scaled her side as noiseless as a mouse; and he was amazed to see the pirates cowering from him, with Hook in their midst as abject as if he had heard the crocodile.
正相反，他自以为是像只老鼠似的悄无声息地爬上了船边。等到他看见海盗们纷纷躲开他，胡克藏在他们中间，失魂落魄，像看到鳄鱼一样，他不由得也惊讶起来。 - 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。 - Osama bin Laden killed cowering behind his'human shield'wife.
拉登被击毙，死前用妻子做人盾。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Do stop cowering! I'm not going to hit you.
别退缩！我不会打你。 - 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。 - Just imagine what Pittypat and Melly cowering in their beds would think, should Captain Butler come upstairs!
试想果真巴特勒船长上楼去了，此刻正畏缩着躲在被子里的皮蒂帕特和媚兰会怎样看呢！ - 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。 - 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。 - Who wants to live their life cowering in fear?
谁想终生生活在恐惧当中？ - The dog was cowering in a corner.
狗蜷缩在角落里。 - 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； - They found an amazing sight, remnants of an army that had vanished, and brought back the abandoned supplies to the Israelites cowering inside.
军兵消失，留下大批物资。他们把被弃的供给品带给缩在城里的以色列人。 - 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。 - Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette, and then several fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas.
只见她将笔先在松节油里蘸了一通，又在蓝、白颜料中搅了几下，然后在调色板上疾调了一番，接下来便是对着画布一顿猛击猛砍。