browbeat

英['braʊbiːt]美['braʊbiːt]
  • v. 威吓；恫吓

    • 记忆方法

    词源记忆法
    【发音释义】：['bra?bi?t] vt. 吓唬；欺负【结构分析】： browbeat = brow （眉毛）+ beat （打击）→横眉立眼来吓唬人→吓唬、欺负
      verb(动词)
      1. 威吓；吓唬

    双解例句

    verb(动词)
    1. 威吓；吓唬

      Don't be browbeaten into working more hours than you want.

      别被唬住去加班工作。

    小知识

    To browbeat is to intimidate with language. Picture yourself in a police station. The cops are trying to get you to talk by using tough, even abusive, language. They are browbeating you.

    When someone browbeats you, they're giving you a beating with their mouth and their mind. If your parents have to browbeat you into cleaning your room, they nag you, yell at you and they may even make fun of you and your bad cleaning habits. While the word brow means forehead, think that they're using their head, or brow, to beat you down. It's a figurative, rather than a literal, beating.

    实用短语

    1. browbeat sb into doing sth

      威逼某人做某事,翻译

    2. browbeat t

      吓唬

    3. tending to browbeat others

      倾向于吓唬别人

    4. use pressure to browbeat others

      以力服人

    5. browbeat someone into doing something

      威逼着某人去做某事

    单词用法

    单词变形
    browbeats过去式： browbeat过去分词： browbeaten现在分词： browbeating

    同义词

    trample  /  intimidate  /  threaten

    同根词

    词根：browbeat

    adj.

    browbeaten战战兢兢的

    v.

    browbeaten吓唬（browbeat的过去分词）