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browbeaten

英 [ˈbraʊbiːtn]

美 [ˈbraʊbiːtn]

v.  恫吓; 威逼
browbeat的过去分词

过去分词:browbeaten 

BNC.41626

柯林斯词典

    The form browbeat is used in the present tense and is also the past tense. browbeat的过去式和原形相同。

  • VERB 威逼;恫吓
    If someone tries tobrowbeatyou, they try to force you to do what they want.
    1. ...attempts to deceive, con, or browbeat the voters...
      蒙蔽、欺骗或恫吓选民的企图
    2. When I backed out of the 100 metres, an older kid tried to browbeat me into it.
      我要退出100米比赛的时候,一个年纪大些的孩子试图吓唬我就范。

双语例句

  • Don't let yourself to be browbeaten or cornered into making concessions with which you are not comfortable.
    不要强迫自己去做不痛快的事,或者逼自己去与之妥协。
  • A poor, browbeaten little clerk.
    可怜的、被吓坏的小职员。
  • Thereupon, finding Tess unfairly browbeaten, the husbands and lovers tried to make peace by defending her; but the result of that attempt was directly to increase the war.
    因此,几个丈夫和情人看见苔丝受到欺负,感到不公平,就想化解这场吵,帮着苔丝说了几句话;但是他们努力的结果,却是更加把战事激化了。
  • They were browbeaten into accepting the offer.
    他们被威逼接受了提议。
  • Mr Obama's softly-softly tour of the Middle Kingdom suggests he knows Beijing cannot be browbeaten.
    奥巴马耐心谨慎的中国之行暗示,他明白,北京不可能被吓住。
  • Refused to Be BrowBeaten and insulted;
    拒绝被逼讯及被侮辱;
  • Cora is quite simply a browbeaten wife.
    科拉完全是个服服贴贴的妻子。
  • It has shown over the past year that it is too widely supported to be browbeaten into concessions either by sanctions or by pressure from Fatah.
    过去的一年表明,由于广泛的支持,无论是制裁还是法塔赫的压力都不会使得退让出现。
  • Ah, I'm so disorganized, so browbeaten by what I remember.
    啊,我的思绪如此杂乱无章,如此受制于回忆与往事。