browbeaten
基本解釋
- v. 威逼，恫嚇（browbeat 的過去分詞）
- adj. 膽怯的，怯場的
英漢例句
- 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.
過去的一年表明，由于廣泛的支持，無論是制裁還是法塔赫的壓力都不會使得退讓出現(xiàn)。
dj.client.iciba.com - Despite diplomatic support for the NATO campaign, most Gulf countries remain wary of advertising the benefits of regime change to browbeaten populations.
盡管得到北約組織的支持，許多幾內亞灣國家仍然擔心宣布政權易主對戰(zhàn)戰(zhàn)兢兢的人們利益的問題。 - 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，幾個丈夫和情人看見苔絲受到欺負，感到不公平，就想化解這場吵，幫著苔絲說了幾句話；但是他們努力的結果，卻是更加把戰(zhàn)事激化了。 - In 1997 Mr Hashimoto was browbeaten into accepting a policy that will see the post office turned into a public company in 2003.
ECONOMIST: Japanese finance - By the 1980s the Democrats were ossified: bereft of ideas, controlled by out-of-touch barons in Congress, and browbeaten by a popular Republican president.
ECONOMIST: Campaigning in Clinton country - Companies drilling in the Gulf of Mexico are being browbeaten into paying royalties to Washington that weren't part of their original agreements with the feds when the leases were bought in the 1990s.
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