fetal position

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Curl up in the fetal position, she spoons.
在胎兒的位置，她會(huì)用勺子。
Mentally, I was shrinking into the fetal position.
精神上，我已經(jīng)縮到一個(gè)胚胎大小了。
Shouldn't Apple have been more aggressive about changing the game while its opponents were curled up in the fetal position?
在其對(duì)手像胎兒一樣踡縮時(shí)，蘋(píng)果不應(yīng)該更具野心的改變這個(gè)遊戯嗎？

Washington has promoted low interest rates as a housing cure-all, while Wall Street cowers in a lawsuit-weary fetal position.
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When police arrived around noon, the teenager was gone and Portillo was laying on the ground in the fetal position.
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They were allowed to kneel next to him on the floor, where he was lying in a fetal position, and remove his blindfold.
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a position in which someone lies in a curved shape with legs and arms bent and close to the body

If someone is in the fetal position, their body is curled up like a fetus in the womb.