音标:['kaʊə] ;
vi.
蜷缩;畏缩;退缩:
She cowered at the sight of a snake.
她见到蛇就退缩不前。
[英国方言]弯腰屈膝,弯腰屈背地站着;蹲

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学英语单词
ace boon
acid igneous rock
acylethanolamine
alloneneic
anchor cock-a-bill
apportion design
be successful
Becerril de Campos
biradicals
Briois
canellas
Carondelet Reef
Castelnau-de-Brassac
coly
comstat
copy girl
diaryliodonium
diminishing socket
diplomonoecious
direct product ordered set
distentions
domestic kerosene
donnent
double star topology
elective surgery
erratas
eulerian co-ordinates
extract ventilator
F-80
frost pattern
fuge tune
furnace-draft regulation
gasoline oil
hand stowing
hartshorn salt
high-power biological microscope
homeier
horse archers
Ihara Saikaku
immersing cooling
increase speed
institutional market
it's on the house
lab benches
lamp finish
lie beyond
lopping tree
Luisia zollingeri
manganous chloride
meet one's fate
mercury residue
micro-dunhamite (dunhamite)
miscorrection
NHR (net heat rate)
non-project lending
noncommunication
noonoo
outer collar
pan-Gothic
phagostimulation
pifenate
post-dated cheque
prediction error estimator
primatology
propelling pencil refill
raise hay
ready for any venture
rhinocladiella rigidiphora
Rhizophydium piligenum
right-hand view
rivrons
Rocha, Glauber
sardin
save-our-cities
self-destructed
sensualizing
sheetpiling
sodium dichloro isocyanurate
spring peepers
staythorpe
stereo type
string basses
supervisory boards
surveying change-over switch
SYNCOM(synchronous communication satellite)
Taga
tamworth swine
tandem processors
tap pipe thread
tarim block
telidons
terreity
textured fiber
tnts
to make an appointment
TO them
undeadened
villus.pl.villi
virila
vomitoxin
wenner-gren
xenon cold traps