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词汇 bow
释义 bow
verb[ I or T ]
uk /baʊ/ us /baʊ/

bowverb[I or T] (BEND)


to bend your head or body forward, especially as a way of showing someone respect or expressing thanks to people who have watched you perform: (使)鞠躬;(使)欠身;点头致意
bow toThey bowed to the Queen.他们向女王鞠躬。
bow your head We bowed our heads in prayer.我们俯首祷告。
He stood at the back, head bowed in silent contemplation.
bow down He bowed down before (= in front of) the king and begged for mercy.
Compare
curtsyverb
They bowed deferentially as she came into the room.当她走进房间时,他们毕恭毕敬地鞠躬。
The children bowed their heads in shame.
The Princess, visibly moved, kept her head bowed during the ceremony.公主显然被感动了,在仪式上一直低着头。
They had to bow to the Prince.
She bowed down before the King.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Physical gestures of respect
bow down
bow your head
chest bump
curtsy
curtsy to someone
dap
dap someone up
doff
elbow bump
fistbump
genuflect
handshake
high five
kowtow
prostrate
prostration
salaam
salute
take a bow
vail

Idiom


bow and scrape

Phrasal verbs


bow down to someone
bow out
bow to someone/something
bow
noun
uk /baʊ/ us /baʊ/

bownoun (BEND)


[ C ]
the movement of bending your head or body forward, especially as a way of showing someone respect or expressing thanks to people who have watched you perform: 鞠躬;欠身;点头致意
take a bow The audience applauded enthusiastically, and she came back on stage to take another bow.观众热烈地鼓掌,她又回到舞台上再次向观众鞠躬致谢。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Physical gestures of respect
bow down
bow your head
chest bump
curtsy
curtsy to someone
dap
dap someone up
doff
elbow bump
fistbump
genuflect
handshake
high five
kowtow
prostrate
prostration
salaam
salute
take a bow
vail

bownoun (FRONT PART)


[ C ](alsobows)
the front part of a boat or ship船头
Compare
stern
[ U ]
in the sport of rowing, the rowing position closest to the front of the boat:
She has moved from the number 5 seat to row at bow.
The man in the bow seat is the youngest in the crew.
[ Cusually singular ]
in the sport of rowing, the person sitting closest to the front of the boat:
He was bow in his University's eight.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parts of ships & boats
abaft
airlock
bilge water
boathook
boiler room
bowline
cleat
keel
periscope
propeller
prow
rigging
spar
sprit
stabilizer
steerage
stem
strop
sun deck
superstructure

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Rowing

Idiom


fire a (warning) shot across someone's bow
bow
noun[ C ]
uk /bəʊ/ us /boʊ/

bownoun[C] (KNOT)


B2
a knot with two curved parts and two loose ends, used as a decoration or to tie shoes: 蝴蝶结;环状装饰结
I tied the ribbon around the present in a pretty bow.我用丝带在包裹上打了一个漂亮的蝴蝶结。
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fastening and tying
be locked togetheridiom
belay
bind
board something up
bound
bowline
clamp
gag
granny knot
half hitch
harness
hobble
hogtie
knot
square knot
strap
strap someone in
strap something up
strop
tack

bownoun[C] (WEAPON)


B2
a weapon for shooting arrows, made of a long, thin piece of wood or fibreglass bent into a curve by a tightly stretched string:
bow and arrowHe made his own bow and arrows.
The arrow had been shot from a bow.
So-called recurve bows are used in Olympic archery competitions.
See also
crossbow
longbow
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Target sports
aim
archer
archery
arrow
arrowhead
biathlete
bowstring
bowyer
bracer
bullseye
end
marksman
markswoman
sharpshooter
shooting gallery
target
toxophilite
toxophily
trap shooter
trap shooting

bownoun[C] (MUSIC)


C2
a long, thin piece of wood with hair from the tail of a horse stretched along it, used to play musical instruments that have strings: (弦乐器的)弓,琴弓
Violins are played with bows.小提琴是用琴弓演奏的。
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Musical instruments
accordion
acoustically
aerophone
alphorn
alto
drum kit
drum machine
drumbeat
drumhead
drumroll
ocarina
oud
over-pedal
panpipes
paradiddle
tubular bells
tuned
tuning fork
tuning peg
ukulele

Idiom


put a bow on something
bow
verb[ I or T ]
uk /bəʊ/ us /boʊ/

bowverb[I or T] (MUSIC)


to play an instrument that has strings, using a long, thin piece of wood with hair from the tail of a horse stretched along it:
I'm not bowing, but using my fingers pizzicato.
You can achieve a completely different tone by bowing the strings nearer to the bridge.
Pizzicato - plucking rather than bowing - is a feature throughout the piece, but some of the pizzicato notes are played with the left hand while the right continues to bow.
String players play more continuously than other musicians in the orchestra - violinists tend to bow through every movement.
The string players bowed lightly, producing the most delicate sounds possible.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Musical instruments
accordion
acoustically
aerophone
alphorn
alto
drum kit
drum machine
drumbeat
drumhead
drumroll
ocarina
oud
over-pedal
panpipes
paradiddle
tubular bells
tuned
tuning fork
tuning peg
ukulele

bow | American Dictionary


bow
verb[ I/T ]
us/bɑʊ/

bowverb[I/T] (BEND)


to bend the head or body forward as a way of showing respect, expressing thanks, or greeting someone:
[ T ]We knelt and bowed our heads in prayer.

Phrasal verbs


bow down to someone
bow out
bow to something
bow
noun[ C ]
us/bɑʊ/

bownoun[C] (BEND)


the act of bending the head or body forward:
The troupe’s artistic director took a bow with his dancers at the final curtain last night.

bownoun[C] (SHIP PART)


the front part of a ship
bow
noun[ C ]
us/boʊ/

bownoun[C] (KNOT)


a knot with two curved parts and two loose ends, which is used as a decoration or to tie shoes

bownoun[C] (WEAPON)


a weapon for shooting arrows, often used for sport, made of a long, narrow piece of wood bent into a curve by a string that is stretched tightly between its two ends

bownoun[C] (INSTRUMENT)


a long, thin piece of wood with many hairs stretched between its ends, used to play musical instruments that have strings:
a violin bow

Examples of bow


bow
He shows how violinists and other string players held their instruments and their bows.
In either case, at the conclusion of the process the audience applauds, the performers (if there were any) bow, and everybody exits.
Probably unknown to the arrangers, adjustments in subtle nuances (bowing, articulation, timbre) appropriate for string writing were made by the veteran string musicians.
The haptic feedback of elasticity is mapped to the corresponding servomotor for vertical motion, simulating the resilience of a bow pushing into a violin string.
His sonatas show great concern with virtuosity of the bow, alternating sequential patterns with the articulation of ornaments.
The brightness of the bowed-string timbre produced by the physical model varies with the speed of the virtual bow.
There is no single control; rather a combination of inputs such as bow-speed, bow pressure, choice of string and even finger position.
Afterward he sees his favorite dancer wiping sweat from her face as she receives his complements with cool bows.
To first order with respect to the slenderness parameter, the near-field flow appears to be two-dimensional in each transverse plane along the bow.
Seemingly paralysed and unprepared, the regency bowed to the inevitable dismissal, and were spared any reprisals.
Likewise, the software maps the data from the encoder that senses vertical motion to the bow force parameter of the bowed-string physical model.
The numerical program has been verified by comparing with the analytical results for a thin wedge-shaped bow.
The simulation leads to a fairly good prediction of the bow wave height, but the longitudinal position at which the maximum occurs is over-estimated.
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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