I am scarred for life from this, and now cower in my office in fear that the phone will ring.

后来我一辈子都怕了这些，就像现在躲在办公室里，生怕电话又会响。

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I don't think that I could have screamed or threatened them into doing so, not even if I'd tossed them outside in the middle of winter, to cower barefoot and freezing on the front step.

按我看，即便我冲他们大喊大叫、龇牙咧嘴，甚至在大冬天里把他们赶出家门、让他们光着脚在门口瑟瑟发抖，他们也不会去读。

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When the day is done and the shadows cower under the trees, I shall come back in the dusk.

一天结束了，影子俯伏在树底下，我会在黄昏时回家。

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My mother learned to cower, I learned to fight with him, and my sister, two years older and obviously smarter, did all she could to pass for perfect.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Practice of Deceit'

We hung a backpack off of an ice screw to block some of the debris funneling down the chute, but mostly all I could do was hold the rope and cower while Jim led up.

WSJ: Amid the Perils of Patagonia