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unbowed

/uhn-boud/US // ʌnˈbaʊd //UK // (ʌnˈbaʊd) //

不屈不挠,不屈不挠的精神,不屈不挠地,不屈不挠的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not bowed or bent.
    • : not yielding or submitting, as to defeat; not subjugated: Even when their country was occupied, the people of Norway remained unbowed.

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Examples

  • No matter: Christman and her conservative sisters remain unbowed and eager to plow ahead.

  • Then Hezbollah fought them to a draw, emerging bloodied but unbowed, and with more credibility than ever.

  • Unbowed, undaunted, defiant, and committed are the words that shout out when looking at these remarkable photographs,” he wrote.

  • Roy was unbowed and responded, “Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.”

  • Though unsuccessful in her first foray into national politics, unbowed, Palin has shown more mettle at times than President Obama.

  • If the Colonel were no longer with him, still his head was bloody but unbowed—and he would fight on to the end.

  • It is the breakdown of this regime or the rise of new and as yet unbowed adversaries that leads to the reactive use of force.

  • His brow was unwrinkled, his piercing eye undimmed, and his tall figure majestic and unbowed.

  • The Allies' heads were "bloody but unbowed," and they were still the masters of their fate.

  • He knew a poem by a man who wrote, "My head is bloody but unbowed."