cowed

adj.

1. 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

1. See also: He kept a few dairy cows... Dad went out to milk the cows. ...a herd of cows. cattle
2. N-COUNT 雌性动物(如雌象、雌鲸等)
   Some female animals, including elephants and whales, are called cows .
   1. ...a cow elephant.
      雌象
3. 婆娘;娘儿们
   If someone describes a woman as a cow, they dislike her and think that she is unpleasant or stupid.
4. VERB 恐吓;威胁;把…吓住
   If someone is cowed, they are made afraid, or made to behave in a particular way because they have been frightened or badly treated.
   1. 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。
   2. ...cowing them into submission.
      胁迫他们顺从
5. PHRASE 很长时间;长期
   If you say that someone can do something until 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.
   1. 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。
6. See also: mad cow disease sacred cow

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. Her rebuke and her mood seemed to fill the whole room, and to impart a cowed look to the furniture, and candle, and children playing about, and to her mother's face.
   她的神情和责备似乎充满了整个屋子，一种使人害怕的气氛似乎传给了家具、蜡烛和四周玩耍的孩子们，也似乎传到了她母亲的脸上。
4. Some see British papers 'reluctance to run the Kate photos as a sign the country's once-rambunctious tabloids have been cowed by a scandal over phone hacking and other wrongdoing, which brought public opprobrium and an ongoing media-ethics inquiry.
   一些人认为，英国报纸不愿刊登凯特的照片，可以看出英国一度难以掌控的八卦小报受到了电话窃听丑闻和其他丑闻的影响，这些丑闻导致了公众对媒体的责骂，以及持续进行的媒体道德质询。
5. 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。
6. Potential rivals were so cowed by her popularity that no-one dared challenge her for the leadership.
   由于她深得人心，那些潜在的竞争者都被镇住，无人敢向她挑战领导地位。
7. We can never be cowed into submission.
   我们决不会受恐吓而屈服。
8. The protesters refused to be cowed into submission by the army.
   抗议者拒绝向军队屈膝投降。
9. I will not be cowed by the sight of my own shadow!
   我不会被我自己的影像吓到的！
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. The small boy was cowed by the class bully.
    那个小孩被班上那个恃强凌弱者吓唬住了。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. The peasantry cannot be annihilated or even cowed by bombs.
    农民不会被炸弹消灭，甚至不会被它吓倒。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. Mr Bernanke showed then that he was not cowed.
    后来，伯南克表现出，他并没有被吓倒。
20. 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。
21. People shouldn't allow themselves to be cowed into this.
    人们不该让自己吓成这副模样。
22. She was easily cowed by people in authority.
    她很容易被有权势的人吓住。
23. 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。
24. His tragically cowed and battered wife.
    他那位极度受惊并遭毒打的妻子。
25. He cowed his wife into obedience.
    他恐吓他妻子以顺从他。
26. 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。
27. The battle of Britain had been his first defeat, and the malignant bombing of the cities had not cowed the nation or its Government.
    大不列颠战役曾经是他第一次遇到的挫败，对城市进行的残酷轰炸没有吓倒这个国家或它的政府。
28. 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。
29. She was cowed by his intelligence.
    她被他的聪明才智给吓住了。
30. He cowed the boy into doing something illegal.
    他威吓她要这男孩做不法之事。