flinch
flinch 英 [flɪntʃ] 美 [flɪntʃ]
vi. 退缩；畏惧 n. 退缩；畏惧
进行时:flinching 过去式:flinched 过去分词:flinched 第三人称单数:flinches 名词复数:flinches
- To flinch is to react to pain by wincing, pulling away, or cringing. Often it's used to describe a person who shows a moment of weakness or fright: he was so tough, I thought he'd never flinch, but snakes really freak him out.
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- vi. 退缩；畏惧
- n. 退缩；畏惧
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1. This is a well-established method of measuring instinctive attraction to an image, given that those in a more upbeat frame of mind flinch less.
这是一种已被大家广泛接受的测量对照片的本能吸引性的方法，即假定那些看照片时感觉更快乐的人，对噪声更少感到畏惧。
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2. I stand for this. If we meet the world with eyes that do not flinch and hearts that are open, we will find ourselves capable of what is asked of us.
我坚信，如果我们用无所畏惧的眼睛和开放豁达的心灵和世界相遇，我们会发现自己拥有着所应具备的东西。
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3. And if we stick with it, if we don't flinch in the face of some difficulties, then I feel absolutely convinced that we are going to get this economy back on track.
如果我们坚持不懈，如果我们面对困难不退缩，那么，我坚信不疑：我们一定会把目前的经济重新纳入轨道。
- flinch (v.) 1570s, apparently a nasalized form of obsolete Middle English flecche "to bend, flinch," which probably is from Old French flechir "to bend" (Modern French fléchir), also flechier "to bend, turn aside, flinch," which probably are from Frankish *hlankjan or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hlinc- (source also of Middle High German linken, German lenken "to bend, turn, lead"), from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn" (see link (n.)). There were nasalized form of the word in Old French as well (flenchir "to bend; give ground, retreat"). Related: Flinched; flinching. As a noun, "the action of flinching," from 1817.
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