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词汇 bow-to-pressure
释义 bow to pressure
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to do what someone else wants you to do, unwillingly and after they have argued or complained:
Eventually they were forced to bow to public pressure and reform the tax.最终他们屈从于公众的压力,被迫对税收进行改革。
Environmental campaigners accused the government of bowing to pressure from the mining industry.
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Shareholders did not think he was the best candidate, and he eventually bowed to pressure and refused the post.
The government is preparing to bow to pressure and rewrite the proposed law.
The police bowed to pressure from the government to speed up the investigation.
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