cowed

[kaʊd]
  • 释义
  • vt.

    恐吓（cow的过去式与过去分词形式）;

  • adj.

    使感到胆怯的；自惭形秽的;

  • 词义辨析
  • cow, ox
  • 这两个词都可表示“牛”。它们的区别是：
    cow指母牛,尤指供产奶的乳牛; ox是牛的通称,尤指公牛或阉过的公牛。例如:
    He raises cows to sell fresh milk.
    他为了卖鲜奶而养奶牛。
    He is as strong as an ox.
    他体壮如牛。
  • ox，bull，cow，buffalo
  • 这些名词均有“牛”之意。
    ox泛指野生或驯养的牛类，系动物学的用词，通称，也指公牛。
    bull指未经阉割，通常用于配种的公牛，也指西班牙或美洲经专门饲养用作斗牛表演的公牛，引申指彪形大汉。
    cow指任何品种的成年母牛或乳用的乳牛。
    buffalo指水牛，在美国指野牛。
  • 双语例句
  • 1、

    By this time she was so cowed by the beatings that she meekly obeyed.

    这时她已经被打怕了，只得言听计从。

    柯林斯例句
  • 2、

    We shall never be cowed by the bluster of reactionaries.

    我们决不会被反动派的气势汹汹所吓倒.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 3、

    He cowed them with his hard eyes like a tamer among beasts.

    他以严厉的眼光吓他们,活象兽群中间的驯兽师.

    《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • 4、

    She was cowed by his intelligence.

    她被他的聪明才智给吓住了.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 5、

    People were again cowed into subjugation.

    民众也在恐吓逼迫下再度屈从.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 6、

    One of the men sipped from a glass of water, looking wary but not cowed.

    其中一个人吸了瓶子里装的水, 看起来机警而不懦弱.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 7、

    I will not be cowed into forsaking my beliefs.

    我不会因为被恐吓而放弃自己的信仰.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 8、

    Poetry, like schoolboys, by too frequent and severe corrections , may be cowed into Dullness.

    诗苟多改痛改, 犹学童常遭塾师扑责, 积威之下,易成钝儿.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 9、

    She was indeed somewhat cowed by the ferocious campaipaign about it.

    她确实有点被有关此事所引起的严重骚乱所吓倒.

    ——辞典例句
  • 10、

    He cowed the boy into doing something illegal.

    他威吓她要这男孩做不法之事.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 11、

    He is easily cowed by people in authority.

    他很容易被权威所吓住.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 12、

    Rosa was cowed in a moment.

    罗莎再也不敢吭声了.

    ——辞典例句
  • 13、

    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.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 14、

    He cowed them with his threats.

    他威胁恐吓他们.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 15、

    But you could just as easily argue that their are incurious because they're cowed.

    但你也能很轻易地反驳说,他们不感兴趣只是因为他们被吓到了.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 16、

    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.

    ——《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • 17、

    The natives were cowed by the army.

    本地人受到军人的恐吓.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 18、

    If anything, people today are more cowed by celebrityhood and stardom than they've ever been before.

    如果有什么区别的话, 就是今天的人们更容易被上流名人及明星们所唬弄.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 19、

    The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail.

    美国的原子讹诈,吓不倒中国人民.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 20、

    She raised her eyes dully when the doctor came in. She was cowed and broken.

    医生进去时,她呆呆地抬起了头. 她垂头丧气,毫无劲头.

    ——辞典例句
  • 21、

    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.

    ——辞典例句
  • 22、

    We can never be cowed into submission.

    我们决不会受恐吓而屈服.

    ——辞典例句
  • 23、

    Don't let yourself be cowed down by his threat to make it public.

    不要被他要公开此事的威胁吓倒.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 24、

    The child had a cowed look.

    这孩子吓得脸色苍白.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 25、

    Annixter had cursed him so vociferously and tersely that even Osterman was cowed.

    安尼克斯特骂了他的声音之大,语气之凶,连奥斯特曼也不禁吓了一跳.

    ——辞典例句
  • 26、

    He cowed his wife into obedience.

    他恐吓他妻子以顺从他.

    ——辞典例句
  • 27、

    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。

    ——柯林斯例句
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