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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We can never be cowed into submission.
我们决不会受恐吓而屈服。 - Airports and stockmarkets have been closed, but there is an urgent desire to return to normality, to carry on and not be cowed.
飞机场和股市关闭了，但人们迫切地希望恢复正常生活，一如既往地生活下去，而不是惶恐度日。 - People shouldn't allow themselves to be cowed into this.
人们不该让自己吓成这副模样。 - His men are cowed now; he can't work miracles.
他的人现在也怕啦；他又不能制造奇迹。 - Now that she had practically cowed him, she would follow up her work with demands, the acknowledgment of which would make her word law in the future.
现在她既已将他吓倒，她要乘胜追击，提出她的种种要求。只要他让步接受了她的条件，那么今后她的话就成了家里的法律。 - Mr Bernanke showed then that he was not cowed.
后来，伯南克表现出，他并没有被吓倒。 - He cowed the boy into doing something illegal.
他威吓她要这男孩做不法之事。