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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。