| 词汇 | overawing |
| 释义 | overawing present participle ofoverawe overawe verb[ Tusually passive ] uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔː/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑː/ to cause someone to feel a mixture of respect and fear: 使胆怯;使畏惧;吓住 Some of the players were totally overawed by playing their first game at the national stadium.有些选手第一次在国家体育场比赛特别怯场。 Frightening and scaring chill chill someone to the bone/marrowidiom cow cow someone into something/doing something creep curdle daylight flesh ghoulishly heart-stopping heebie-jeebies jump scare make someone's blood curdleidiom scare scare someone into doing something scare someone shitlessidiom scaremongering send send chills down/up someone's spineidiom shiver Examples of overawingoverawing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Preferences went the other way for overawing, backed by 66%, and we may well conclude that its different treatment goes with having more than one syllable. They will not therefore have to have consultations with people overawing them, and they will now be able to make their statements in freedom to their own solicitor. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was quite aware that he could be a physically intimidating man, and was unafraid of using his size and power to his advantage in overawing batsmen psychologically. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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