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单词 hunker down
释义
Hunker Down
vverb.contactsit on one's heels
Synset:crouch hunker scrunch scrunch up squat
Examples:
  • In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
  • The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
Derivationally Related Form:squattingsquat
Hypernyms:sit sit down
Inherited Hypernyms:squatsit
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s PP | There --- some children in the rocking chair (apply to: squat, crouch, scrunch) | The children --- in the rocking chair (apply to: squat, crouch, scrunch)
vverb.perceptiontake shelter
Examples:
  • During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut
Hypernyms:hide hide out
Inherited Hypernyms:hunker downhide
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s PP
vverb.communicationhold stubbornly to a position
Examples:
  • The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down
Hypernyms:hold firm stand fast stand firm stand pat
Inherited Hypernyms:hunker downstand patinsist
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s
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