browbeating

英 [ˈbraʊbiːtɪŋ]

美 [ˈbraʊbiːtɪŋ]

v.  恫吓; 威逼
browbeat的现在分词

柯林斯词典

The form browbeat is used in the present tense and is also the past tense. browbeat的过去式和原形相同。


• VERB 威逼；恫吓
  If someone tries tobrowbeatyou, they try to force you to do what they want.
  1. ...attempts to deceive, con, or browbeat the voters...
     蒙蔽、欺骗或恫吓选民的企图
  2. When I backed out of the 100 metres, an older kid tried to browbeat me into it.
     我要退出100米比赛的时候，一个年纪大些的孩子试图吓唬我就范。

双语例句

• But a growing list of banks competing for the business, Chinese leverage in browbeating banks to cut their prices, and the expense of recruiting and keeping China bankers mean that the profitability of doing business there will remain under pressure.
  然而由于参与业务竞争的银行越来越多、中国企业迫使银行压低价格、招募和保留中国银行家也需要成本，因此这块业务的盈利能力会继续承受压力。
• As the political benefit of being tough on bankers may never be greater than now, there is a real risk of future Congresses browbeating regulators out of using the tools it is now handing out.
  目前，通过严苛对待银行家而获得的政治利益可能达到了登峰造极的水平，在这种情况下，存在一种切实的风险：未来，国会可能会逼迫监管机构废除目前出台的监管工具。
• A browbeating lawyer was demanding that a witness answer a certain question either in the negative or affirmative.
  一位气势汹汹的律师要求一个证人回答问题时要么说“是”，要么说“否”。
• Lobbyists are undoubtedly browbeating the SEC even as you read this.
  就在你读这篇文章的时候，游说者可能就在威胁美国证券交易委员会。