英语释义

• show submission or fear

• draw back, as with fear or pain;

  "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

片语

flattery奉承；谄媚；恭维话

cringe to对

recoil from畏缩，后退

cringe e谄媚

bow border scrape cringe卑躬屈膝

honey对…说甜言蜜语；加蜜使甜

Systemic Cringe全身打哆嗦

cringe before对

bow and scrape cringe卑躬屈膝

to cringe感到难堪

court(Court)人名；(英)考特；(法)库尔

bowscrape cringe卑躬屈膝

英汉例句

• how it made the leap from someone who makes you want to cuddle to someone who makes you cringe isn’t really known but there are a few enticing clues.

  这个词是如何进行的从「让你想拥抱的人」到「能让你哭喊的人」的这一跳跃，并不被我们真正了解，但是其中有一些迷人的线索。

• do you always celebrate your birthday or do you cringe and keep it a secret since you are another year older?

  你经常庆祝生日吗？或者因为你长大了一岁，所以厌恶它，让它成为一个秘密。

• the physician who lives in the chicago area invested heavily in stocks, only to cringe as the value of his portfolio shrank 42% over the last decade.

  这位医生住在芝加哥地区，将大量投资投入到股票上，只有在他的投资价值于过去十年缩水42%的事实才令他退缩。

• most of us cringe when we「re ambushed by memories of that regrettable weekend in cleveland or the bout of crying in the bathroom at the office party, but … every day?

  我们中的大多数人都很脆弱，当克里夫兰那个懊悔的周末突然涌上心头时，会为此而畏缩消沉，或者一个办公室聚会就能让我们躲在浴盆里嚎啕大哭，但是……每一天都在后悔？

• i sometimes cringe when i see these kinds of articles.

  看到这类文章的时候我经常感到局促。

• 「i did cringe a bit, 」 says oliver. "in certain bits, they are dressed differently, and that was very much us saying they wouldn」t always dress the same.

  「我真有点担心，」奥利弗说，“在某些时候，他们穿着不同，这点和我们非常象，也就是说他们总是不穿得一模一样。

• if you cringe at the thought of spending the entire day of christmas in the kitchen cooking and cleaning i have a few suggestions for you to consider.

  如果你对把自己在圣诞节一整天都关在厨房里做饭、打扫的想法感到难办的话，以下是我的建议。

• no one wants to have to cringe when they tell people where they work.

  在说到自己从事的工作时，没有人愿意畏畏缩缩。

• i cringe when i think of the risks i took.

  当我想到我承担的风险时，我也会害怕。

• i cringe when i hear a dignified news reporter soliciting tweets from his or her audience.

  当权威的新闻记者向他（她）的观众征求意见时我就会退缩。

• others will struggle: prepare to cringe in 2011 as corporate leaders spout a lot of phoney stuff that used to look bad enough when written down, but will sound even worse spoken.

  余者将进退两难，準备畏畏缩缩地度过2011年，因为企业领导人造了一堆假，这些谎言用文字表述已经够糟糕了，但是如果用声音说出来，就更糟糕了。

• at each address, i cringe with embarrassment and irritation at a show better suited to pyongyang than to washington.

  每逢演讲，我都会因难堪和烦躁而退缩，这种秀更适合平壤而不是华盛顿。

• school teachers probably cringe at this kind of pronunciation.

  学校的老师们对这样的发音恐怕是不敢恭维。

相似词

flinch退缩；畏惧

crouch蹲伏；俯身接近

squat矮胖的；矮而宽的

wince畏缩，退避

cower退缩；抖缩；蜷缩；弯腰屈膝

squat矮胖的；矮而宽的

crouch蹲伏；俯身接近

cower退缩；抖缩；蜷缩；弯腰屈膝

shrink收缩；畏缩；（非正式）精神病医生，精神病学家，心理学家

creep爬行；毛骨悚然的感觉；谄媚者；非玩家控制的小兵（游戏术语）