cow, ox
这两个词都可表示“牛”。它们的区别是：
cow指母牛,尤指供产奶的乳牛; ox是牛的通称,尤指公牛或阉过的公牛。例如:
He raises cows to sell fresh milk.
他为了卖鲜奶而养奶牛。
He is as strong as an ox.
他体壮如牛。
ox，bull，cow，buffalo
这些名词均有“牛”之意。
ox泛指野生或驯养的牛类，系动物学的用词，通称，也指公牛。
bull指未经阉割，通常用于配种的公牛，也指西班牙或美洲经专门饲养用作斗牛表演的公牛，引申指彪形大汉。
cow指任何品种的成年母牛或乳用的乳牛。
buffalo指水牛，在美国指野牛。
By this time she was so cowed by the beatings that she meekly obeyed.
这时她已经被打怕了，只得言听计从。
柯林斯例句
We shall never be cowed by the bluster of reactionaries.
我们决不会被反动派的气势汹汹所吓倒.
——期刊摘选
He cowed them with his hard eyes like a tamer among beasts.
他以严厉的眼光吓他们,活象兽群中间的驯兽师.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
She was cowed by his intelligence.
她被他的聪明才智给吓住了.
——期刊摘选
People were again cowed into subjugation.
民众也在恐吓逼迫下再度屈从.
——期刊摘选
One of the men sipped from a glass of water, looking wary but not cowed.
其中一个人吸了瓶子里装的水, 看起来机警而不懦弱.
——期刊摘选
I will not be cowed into forsaking my beliefs.
我不会因为被恐吓而放弃自己的信仰.
——期刊摘选
Poetry, like schoolboys, by too frequent and severe corrections , may be cowed into Dullness.
诗苟多改痛改, 犹学童常遭塾师扑责, 积威之下,易成钝儿.
——期刊摘选
She was indeed somewhat cowed by the ferocious campaipaign about it.
她确实有点被有关此事所引起的严重骚乱所吓倒.
——辞典例句
He cowed the boy into doing something illegal.
他威吓她要这男孩做不法之事.
——期刊摘选
He is easily cowed by people in authority.
他很容易被权威所吓住.
——期刊摘选
Rosa was cowed in a moment.
罗莎再也不敢吭声了.
——辞典例句
The smaller boys were cowed by the class bully.
般里年龄较小的男生被那个小霸王吓倒了.
——期刊摘选
He cowed them with his threats.
他威胁恐吓他们.
——期刊摘选
But you could just as easily argue that their are incurious because they're cowed.
但你也能很轻易地反驳说,他们不感兴趣只是因为他们被吓到了.
——期刊摘选
He is not the kind of child who is likely to be cowed into submission.
他并不是那种吓一吓就可能就范的孩子.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
The natives were cowed by the army.
本地人受到军人的恐吓.
——期刊摘选
If anything, people today are more cowed by celebrityhood and stardom than they've ever been before.
如果有什么区别的话, 就是今天的人们更容易被上流名人及明星们所唬弄.
——期刊摘选
The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail.
美国的原子讹诈,吓不倒中国人民.
——期刊摘选
She raised her eyes dully when the doctor came in. She was cowed and broken.
医生进去时,她呆呆地抬起了头. 她垂头丧气,毫无劲头.
——辞典例句
His men are cowed now; he can't work miracles.
他的人现在也怕啦; 他又不能制造奇迹.
——辞典例句
We can never be cowed into submission.
我们决不会受恐吓而屈服.
——辞典例句
Don't let yourself be cowed down by his threat to make it public.
不要被他要公开此事的威胁吓倒.
——期刊摘选
The child had a cowed look.
这孩子吓得脸色苍白.
——期刊摘选
Annixter had cursed him so vociferously and tersely that even Osterman was cowed.
安尼克斯特骂了他的声音之大,语气之凶,连奥斯特曼也不禁吓了一跳.
——辞典例句
He cowed his wife into obedience.
他恐吓他妻子以顺从他.
——辞典例句
The government, far from being cowed by these threats, has vowed to continue its policy.
该政府丝毫没有被这些威胁吓住，发誓要继续执行其政策。
——柯林斯例句
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