hunker
hunker 英 [ˈhʌŋkə(r)] 美 [ˈhʌŋkɚ]
vi. 蹲下，盘坐 n. 守旧者
进行时:hunkering 过去式:hunkered 过去分词:hunkered 第三人称单数:hunkers 名词复数:hunkers
- To hunker is to crouch: to bend your body into a low, small shape. When you're playing hide and seek, you may decide to hunker in the back of a closet until you're found.
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- vi. 蹲下，盘坐
- n. 守旧者
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1. So hunker down and get prepared and listen to the best brains telling it like it is.
那么，蹲下身子做好准备吧，听听那些最好的大脑怎么说。
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2. But a decade later, we’ve shown that America doesn’t hunker down and hide behind walls of mistrust.
但是十年后，我们已经显示美国没有蹲下躲在不信任的墙后面。
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3. What they are hoping to do is find a way to turn these pathways on without forcing the rest of the body to hunker down in survival mode.
他们现在想做的就是找到一种办法，在不强制身体其它部分削弱生存模式的情况下，打开这些通道。
- Hunker (n.) "conservative, fogey," 1849, American English, especially and originally "one of the conservative Democrats of New York of the 1840s" (opposed to the Barnburners). Supposedly from New York dialect hunk "post, station, home," hence "those who stay safe on base" (see hunky-dory), but it also has been said to be from a local word for a curmudgeon, and hunks is recorded from c. 1600 as a name for a surly, crusty old person or miser.
- hunker (v.) "to squat, crouch," 1720, Scottish, of uncertain origin, possibly a nasalized borrowing of a Scandinavian word such as Old Norse huka "to crouch," hoka, hokra "to crawl." Hunker down, Southern U.S. dialectal phrase, is from 1902, popularized c. 1965; in this use the verb is perhaps from northern British hunker "haunch." Related: Hunkered; hunkering.
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