| 词汇 | quailing |
| 释义 | quailing present 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 |
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