hunker down 的定义
- to crouch or squat on one’s heels: Some of the taller kids have trouble with the exercises that involve a lot of hunkering down.
- to hide, hide out, or take shelter, often for just a few hours or less, as from a pursuer or a storm: Runaways hunkered down in all sorts of places along the Underground Railroad.Rain pelted our boat through the night, but we were able to hunker down in a small harbor until daybreak.to settle in to the safety of one’s home or other designated shelter for a potentially prolonged time, as would be necessitated by a natural disaster or an outbreak of a contagious disease: Before hunkering down, we made sure we had enough food, water, batteries, and first-aid supplies to last at least three weeks.Make a plan, and prepare to hunker down.
- to hold resolutely or stubbornly to a policy, opinion, etc., when confronted by criticism, opposition, or unfavorable circumstances: Rather than moving toward compromise, both sides continue to hunker down.He hunkered down and refused to admit his guilt.
- to give one’s full and earnest attention to a project, assignment, or other obligation: No partying for me this weekend—I’ve got to hunker down and finish this term paper.
hunker down 近义词
squat down
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- Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
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- A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.
- The gunman then burst from the restaurant and fled down the street with the other man.
- My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
- The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
- I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
- His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
- So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
- Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?