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 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。 - He is not the kind of child who is likely to be cowed into submission.
他并不是那种吓一吓就可能就范的孩子。 - But his investors were too trusting or too greedy to ask the right questions and US regulators were too cowed and too disorganised.
但他的投资者们过于轻信、或过于贪婪，没能问到关键的问题；而美国的监管机构则过于懦弱，做事也太没章法。 - The peasantry cannot be annihilated or even cowed by bombs.
农民不会被炸弹消灭，甚至不会被它吓倒。 - 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。 - Some see British papers 'reluctance to run the Kate photos as a sign the country's once-rambunctious tabloids have been cowed by a scandal over phone hacking and other wrongdoing, which brought public opprobrium and an ongoing media-ethics inquiry.
一些人认为，英国报纸不愿刊登凯特的照片，可以看出英国一度难以掌控的八卦小报受到了电话窃听丑闻和其他丑闻的影响，这些丑闻导致了公众对媒体的责骂，以及持续进行的媒体道德质询。 - He cowed his wife into obedience.
他恐吓他妻子以顺从他。 - Her rebuke and her mood seemed to fill the whole room, and to impart a cowed look to the furniture, and candle, and children playing about, and to her mother's face.
她的神情和责备似乎充满了整个屋子，一种使人害怕的气氛似乎传给了家具、蜡烛和四周玩耍的孩子们，也似乎传到了她母亲的脸上。 - But not everybody feels so cowed, at least in private.
但并非每个人都被吓成这样，至少私下里不是。 - The smaller boys were cowed by the class bully.
般里年龄较小的男生被那个小霸王吓倒了。