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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Who wants to live their life cowering in fear?
  谁想终生生活在恐惧当中？
• 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。
• Osama bin Laden killed cowering behind his'human shield'wife.
  拉登被击毙，死前用妻子做人盾。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。