cower

1 Soon it would look over the dark ridges of the Ephel Dúath, and he would faint and cower in the light and heat.

2 But the world won't cower until LeBron comes through.

但是世界不会退缩，直到勒布朗能做到他所希望做的。

3 I had never seen an inmate cower so, and for good reason: Phelan’s stance said he was ready to take the man’s head off.

4 She'd kept the majority of her opponents cowering behind their barricades until the last few minutes of the event, when a young man in a floppy hat decided to make a run for it.

5 Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places.

你的仇敌必投降你，你必踏在他们的高处。

6 The condemned prisoner cowered and began to whimper for clemency.

那个被判罪的囚犯抖缩著并开始抽泣请求宽恕.

7 Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

8 He focused on the need for speed, not camping in the forests of Maryland, cowering like a wounded animal, fearful that every noise meant the hunters were about to seize him.

9 He let me cower for a few minutes.

10 They halted, cowering on the evil-smelling ground; but they saw nothing in the gloomy evening sky above, and soon the menace passed, high overhead, going maybe on some swift errand from Barad-dûr.

11 When the owner came to see what the excitement was about, the boy cowered—threw up his arms as if to ward off a blow.

12 They found him cowering in the corner, loudly praying.

13 Some big white thing was striking at Woundwort, who was cowering and guarding his head as best he could.

14 And cowering behind his legs, heavily wrapped in bandages, was Dobby.

15 Polly cowered before him, her hands held up in front of her face.

16 A part of her was still in Capricorn’s village, or trudging through thorns, or cowering in the ruined hovel and trembling as Basta came closer.

17 No need to cower behind a gate-post, indeed!—to peep up at chamber lattices, fearing life was astir behind them!

18 It was that more than the drag of the Ring that made him cower and stoop as he walked.

19 Lightning flashed across the black sky, and I cowered in fear.

20 I decided I wasn’t going to cower in fear of Fazlullah’s wrath.

1 蜷缩

cringe squinch scrooch curly huddle tuck crouch curl up curl scrunch

2 蹲

hunker sit squat crouch scrunch

3 畏缩

recoil wilt cringe falter quail balk backward timid sheepish halfhearted dashtard duck wince shrink funk crouch shirk blench shrink back get tail down chicken retiring bashful flinch dread baulk hang back hang back from get cold feet have cold feet faltering shy shrinking craven phobic dastard resile wither daunt overawe funky withering diffidence curl weaken crinkle squinch shrinkingly snool with tail between legs with tail between the legs with the tail between legs

4 退缩

recoil cringe shrink from flinch funk wince blench resile shrink retreat withdrawal backtrack draw back from doing draw back from from doing bottle it back off draw back withdraw shy away hang back shrinking fink-out atrophy boggle recede jib crawfish fink crinkle fink out shrinkingly draw in horns haul in horns pull in horns hang off