cower是什么意思

双语用例

• Investigative journalists and rebel spies cower in the shadows.

• The state's power to punish did not then cause people to cower into submission.

• The cowering "lamb" reveals his teeth in fear.

• I really am delighted that we are not cowered by those threats.

• Secondly, we must recognise that one result of cowering behind high tariff walls is that retaliatory tariffs are imposed.

• I found myself cowering in the ditch in sheer terror the other day in order to let one of these great trains get past.

• We cower behind the fact that we have no language to describe it and, finding no language to describe it, limply assume it won't happen.

• She cowered under a table in fear of her life.