browbeaten
基本解释
- v. 威逼，恫吓（browbeat 的过去分词）
- adj. 胆怯的，怯场的
英汉例句
- 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.
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。
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.
尽管得到北约组织的支持，许多几内亚湾国家仍然担心宣布政权易主对战战兢兢的人们利益的问题。 - 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。 - 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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