browbeat
英 ['braʊbiːt]
美 ['braʊ'bit]
英語の語源
- browbeat (v.)
- "to bully," originally "to bear down with stern or arrogant looks," 1580s, from brow + beat (v.).
[I]t appears from the earliest quotations ... that the brow in question was that of the beater, not of the beaten party; but it is not evident whether the meaning was 'to beat with one's (frowning) brows,' or 'to beat (?lower) one's brows at.' [OED]
Related: Browbeaten; browbeating.
例文
- 1. They browbeat him into signing the document.
- 彼らは彼を書類に署名させた。
- 2.We shall never allow our police to browbeat prisoners into admitting their guilt.
- 警察が囚人に自白を強要することは決して許されない。
- 3.When I backed out of the 100 metres,an older kid tried to browbeat me into.
- 私が100メートルのレースを引退しようとしたとき、年配の子供が私を脅そうとした。
- 4.The judge browbeat the witness.
- その裁判官は証人を威嚇した。
- 5.They jostled, browbeat ,and threatened one another,but they did not come to actual hostilities.
- それらは互いに衝突し、威嚇し、恫喝したが、本当の戦争状態には達していない。
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