| 词汇 | quailed |
| 释义 | quailed past simple and past participle ofquail quail verb[ I ] literaryuk /kweɪl/ us /kweɪl/ to feel or show fear; to want to be able to move away from something because you fear it: 害怕;退缩 Charlie quailed at the sound of his mother's angry voice.查理听到他母亲愤怒的声音，心里不由得感到发毛。 She quailed before her boss's anger.她在老板的怒火前退缩了。 Compare flinch shrinkverb winceverb recoilverb Afraid afraid afraid for someone/something afraid of someone/something be in fear of your lifephrase be like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlightsidiom bottle frit goosey gun-shy have a horror of somethingidiom horror-struck leaf panic quake shake shake like a leafidiom shit a brickidiom squirrelly terrified terror-stricken Examples of quailedquailed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. For too long the official mind quailed before settler muscle. How many papers have been published because the referee quailed before unreadable formulas? His effrontery, however, quailed before a disease so earnest and energetic as pericarditis, and he requested that some regular physician should be called in to treat the malady. I am pleased that some train operators have not quailed at the technical obstacles that make it difficult to carry cycles on trains. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all remember the days of the county clerk who quailed councillors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They never quailed at their tasks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That politicians often quailed under his gaze was no wonder, for the gaze was piercing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He would often go in where others quailed, and was always bound to carry them to a successful issue. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. And fear of his personality was so deeply impressed on the hearts of all, both the high and the low, that the courage of lion-hearted persons quailed in his presence. 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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