sit on one's heels;

"In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"

"The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"

hold stubbornly to a position;

"The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down"

take shelter;

"During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut"

it「s an instinct to hunker down and control things that makes this harder for people.

刢其实着手控制是一种本能，凤结果却把事情变得更加困难。

instead the bird struck his temple and slid hot and greasy down his face, and he had to hunker down and stretch for it with fetters clanking.

于是相反，那只鸟击中了他的太阳穴流下了滚烫的肥油，他不得不坐下来拖着叮叮当当的脚镣伸手去够它。

this is one of the few careers in the health field where you can hunker down in your office, during day, evening, or night shifts.

这是卫生领域里的一个人数为数不多的职业，您可以在您的办公室里坐下来在日间、夜间、或晚上。

if it isn」t powerful enough, it won「t hunker down in our minds, biding its time before it boomerangs back.

如果不够强烈，信息不能在意识中存留，等着时间让其回归。

here, in dollow, on the border with ethiopia, thousands of refugees hunker down in make-shift camps, built with what remains of their personal wealth: a few rags and boughs from the bush.

在与埃塞俄比亚接壤的dollow，成千上万的人居住在一片难民营里，建造难民营他们穷尽了所有——「几块破布和灌木丛中捡来的几根树枝」。

so hunker down and get prepared and listen to the best brains telling it like it is.

那么，蹲下身子做好準备吧，听听那些最好的大脑怎么说。

perhaps those of us who merely want to hunker down and be transported should look past both sides to concern ourselves with function instead of form.

或许，我们中那些只想坐享其成的人应当忽略这两方面的观点，关注功能而不是形式。

it」s when many, especially those who adhere to traditional nomadic rhythms of life, hunker down until spring.

这个时候，很多人要转场定居直到春天，那些还循着传统游牧生活节奏的人们尤其如此。

but israel cannot emigrate, and it will have no choice but to hunker down and fortify its formerly peaceful border with egypt.

可惜以色列无法迁居，只能严守其和埃及之前签订的和平边界。

the youngsters hunker down at the bottom of the nest, hiding until mom shows up for mealtimes.

孩子们通常藏在巢穴底部，等到母亲呼唤时才出来。

when panic sets it, just drain the grease tanks of a few abandoned fast food joints, hunker down and make your fuel.

当恐慌来临，只要用光几桶用不要的速食做成的燃料，坐下然后自己制作燃料就可以了。

we can say this; we live in interesting times and you better hunker down and get out of the way.

我们可以这样说，我们生活在一个有趣的时代，你更好的亨克下来，走出一条出路。

employees find new jobs, or they hunker down and get ready to change.

或者员工找到新工作，或準备好变革。

in winter, perhaps you’ll be looking for a fellow movie buff to hunker down with, bucket of popcorn in hand.

冬季，举例说，你可以去找一影迷朋友，手里拿一小桶爆米花，一起窝哪看电影。

「one day we saw an adolescent orang-utan called sif wade into deep water, hunker down and then lunge forward making simple paddling movements with her arms and legs,」 says russon.

有一天，我们看到青春期红毛猩猩sif趟进深水，蹲下来，然后用胳膊和腿做出简单的划水动作往前沖。

a test of your resilience, your patience, your ability to hunker down and sit tight till something wonderful turns up. and it does.

斯基纳是对你的一种考验，考验你的韧性和耐心，考验你沉得住气的本领，直到美丽的风景出现。

what they are hoping to do is find a way to turn these pathways on without forcing the rest of the body to hunker down in survival mode.

他们现在想做的就是找到一种办法，在不强制身体其它部分削弱生存模式的情况下，打开这些通道。

and the best strategy is not to hunker down and fit in. it's to stand up and stand out.

因此最好的办法不再是守株待兔了，而是要站起来，从人群当中脱颖而出。

your instinct is to hunker down and figure out which is the 「right」 answer.

你的直觉是蹲下来，捉摸一下哪个是‘对’的答案。

the consumers will hunker down further and pull back spending, sending the economy into a tailspin.

消费者将要进一步减少开支，使经济进入失控状态。