Cringe
[krɪn(d)ʒ] or [krɪndʒ]
解释:
(v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
(v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
(n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
校对:露辛达
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Crouch, fawn, truckle, sneak, stoop, bend the knee.
哈维整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Crouch, bend, bow, fawn, grabble, grub
ANT:Face, confront, defy, dare
校对:苏西
解释:
v.i. to bend or crouch with servility: to submit: to fawn: to flatter with mean servility.—n. a servile obeisance.—ns. Cringe′ling Crin′ger one who cringes.—adv. Crin′gingly in an obsequious manner.
校对:佩里
例句:
- There was a little brusque, turgid contempt for her in his swift gesture, and she seemed to cringe a little. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It is very well to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- How they cringe and bow to that Creole, because of her hundred thousand pounds! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Gerald went about all day with a tendency to cringe, as if there were the point of a sword of Damocles pricking the nape of his neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl; but he either beats or cringes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The Epicurean was determined to make Humanity go its way without cringing to capricious gods and without sacrificing Free-Will. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He cringed and coaxed Rawdon at the club. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Either beats or cringes, said Wemmick, not at all addressing himself to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- A fellow like our friend the Spider, answered Mr. Jaggers, either beats or cringes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl; but he either beats or cringes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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