cower
英語
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[編輯]詞源 1
[編輯]源自中古英語 couren、cowre,源自中古低地德語 kûren (「潛伏;遊蕩」)或北日耳曼語支(冰島語 kúra (「打盹」))。同源詞包括德語 kauern (「蹲伏」)、荷蘭語 koeren (「蹲守」)、塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語 kutriti (「躺着縮成一團」)、瑞典語 kura (「蜷縮」)。與coward無關,其源自拉丁語。
動詞
[編輯]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) 蜷縮,畏縮
- 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.
- 打仗的時候他肯定沒用,他肯定會縮在地堡里,一直到敵人進來把他槍斃了,或者戰爭打完。
- 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...蜷縮;嚇住,恐嚇...並使其屈服
- 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,頁號 170:
- My spirit will cower them and make them wish they had never risen up against me.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 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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[編輯]詞源 2
[編輯]動詞
[編輯]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)