單詞
overawe
英 [??v?r'??]
美
基本信息
- vt. 威懾；嚇住；使大感敬畏
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?overawes;過去式:?overawed;過去分詞:?overawed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?overawing;形容詞:?overawed;
中文詞源
overawe 使極為敬畏
over-,超過，過度，awe,敬畏。
英文詞源
- overawe (v.)
- 1570s, from over- + awe (v.). Perhaps coined by Spenser. Related: Overawed; overawing.
雙語例句
- 1. The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
- 整個市中心區(qū)有著一種高傲的神氣,好像故意要讓一些前來尋找職業(yè)的普通人感到惶恐不安.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Truth does not strike a pose to overawe people but talks and acts honestly and sincerely.
- 凡真理都不裝樣子嚇人,它只是老老實實地說下去和做下去.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
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