记忆方法
将“browbeat”分解为“brow”（眉毛）和“beat”（打、敲打）。想象某人用眉毛（通常表示威严或不满）来“打”或“压迫”别人，以此来记住这个单词的含义，即“用威压或斥责的方式使某人屈服”。
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英语词源
- browbeat (v.)
- "to bully," originally "to bear down with stern or arrogant looks," 1580s, from brow + beat (v.).
[I]t appears from the earliest quotations ... that the brow in question was that of the beater, not of the beaten party; but it is not evident whether the meaning was 'to beat with one's (frowning) brows,' or 'to beat (?lower) one's brows at.' [OED]
Related: Browbeaten; browbeating.
权威例句
- 1. They browbeat him into signing the document.
- 他们威逼他签署了文件.
- 2. We shall never allow our police to browbeat prisoners into admitting their guilt.
- 我们决不允许我们的警察对囚犯搞逼供.
- 3. 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。
- 4. The judge browbeat the witness.
- 那法官威吓证人.
- 5. They jostled, browbeat , and threatened one another, but they did not come to actual hostilities.
- 它们彼此冲撞 、 威逼 、 恫吓, 但是没有达到真正的战争状态.
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