cringing
[krɪndʒŋ]
v.
畏缩( cringe的现在分词);
退缩;
卑躬屈;
憎恶;
例句:
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I feel like a cringing cur kicked about in a crowd.
来自C. Connolly
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a child cringing in terror
吓得直退缩的小孩
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Then , what submission , what cringing and fawning , what servility, what abject humiliation!
好一个低眉垂首、阿谀逢迎、胁肩谄笑 、 卑躬屈膝的场面!
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He had a cringing manner but a very harsh voice.
他有卑屈谄媚的神情,但是声音却十分粗沙.
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His cringing wife and the imaginary lover he had always sworn to catch in flagrante delicto.
来自E. Paul
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But where, the cringing hotel men want to know, is the picture of the hotel, or Diamond Head?
来自WSJ