cower
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[编辑]源自中古英語 couren、cowre，源自中古低地德語 kûren (“潜伏；游荡”)或北日耳曼語支（冰島語 kúra (“打盹”)）。同源词包括德語 kauern (“蹲伏”)、荷蘭語 koeren (“蹲守”)、塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語 kutriti (“躺着缩成一团”)、瑞典語 kura (“蜷缩”)。与coward无关，其源自拉丁语。
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cower (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 cowers，現在分詞 cowering，一般過去時及過去分詞 cowered)
- (不及物) 蜷缩，畏缩
- He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
- 打仗的时候他肯定没用，他肯定会缩在地堡里，一直到敌人进来把他枪毙了，或者战争打完。
- 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox", in Fables, Ancient and Modern, published March 1700:
- Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
- (不及物，古舊) 蹲
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:
- Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
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- (及物) 使...蜷缩；吓住，恐吓...并使其屈服
- 1895, Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industry of Kansas:
- This done, their doubts will vanish, and they will stand confronted by an object lesson which must have the effect either to arouse them to a determination to banish despotism from the land, or cower them into submission and servitude.
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- 2007, DJ Birmingham, The Queen's Tale: The Struggle for the Survival of Ireland，第 170 頁:
- My spirit will cower them and make them wish they had never risen up against me.
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- 2010, Marilyn Brown Oden, The Dead Saint:
- A vicious Mafia threat intended to cower him—but the chief doesn't cower.
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[编辑]cower (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 cowers，現在分詞 cowering，一般過去時及過去分詞 cowered)