browbeaten

英 [ˈbraʊbiːtn]

美 [ˈbraʊbiːtn]

v.  恫吓; 威逼
browbeat的过去分词

过去分词：browbeaten　

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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

• 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。
• A poor, browbeaten little clerk.
  可怜的、被吓坏的小职员。
• Cora is quite simply a browbeaten wife.
  科拉完全是个服服贴贴的妻子。
• They were browbeaten into accepting the offer.
  他们被威逼接受了提议。
• Refused to Be BrowBeaten and insulted;
  拒绝被逼讯及被侮辱；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。