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
- She was cowed by his intelligence.
她被他的聪明才智给吓住了。 - Rochester's manner to her becomes more gracious when she is obviously not cowed by his overbearing manner.
显然，她并未被罗切斯特那盛气凌人的样子所吓住，这时他对她的态度才变得谦和起来。 - 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。 - 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。 - Airports and stockmarkets have been closed, but there is an urgent desire to return to normality, to carry on and not be cowed.
飞机场和股市关闭了，但人们迫切地希望恢复正常生活，一如既往地生活下去，而不是惶恐度日。 - 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。 - Now that she had practically cowed him, she would follow up her work with demands, the acknowledgment of which would make her word law in the future.
现在她既已将他吓倒，她要乘胜追击，提出她的种种要求。只要他让步接受了她的条件，那么今后她的话就成了家里的法律。 - Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness.
情绪或态度谦逊；使人想起谦让的温和甚至是牛一般的柔顺。 - 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。 - His men are cowed now; he can't work miracles.
他的人现在也怕啦；他又不能制造奇迹。