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- overawe
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VERB
使极为敬畏;慑服 If you are overawed by something or someone, you are very impressed by them and a little afraid of them.
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Don't be overawed by people in authority, however important they are...
不管当官儿的职权有多大,都不要被他们吓倒。
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He's never been overawed or intimidated by big occasions.
各种大场合都没让他犯过憷。
overawed
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Benjamin said that he had been rather overawed to meet one of the Billington family.
本杰明说他对与比林顿家族的一员会面深感惶恐。
- Verb
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1. subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)
- synonym: cow
- 1. The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
- 整个市中心区有着一种高傲的神气,好像故意要让一些前来寻找职业的普通人感到惶恐不安。
来自《简明英汉词典》


