To be cowardly under fire is understandable, but to cower when there is a world to be taught(and to learn from) is contemptible .

在炮火袭击下畏缩尚可理解，而面对一个需要教导（也可从中学习）的世界却当懦夫则是卑鄙的。

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To be cowardly under fire is understandable, but to cower when there is a world to be taught (and to learn from) is contemptible.

在炮火袭击下畏缩尚可理解，而面对一个需要教导(也可从中学习)的世界却当懦夫则是卑鄙的。

youdao

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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This part of the building was where the afternoon's entertainment used to cower pre-performance.

BBC: Going underground at the Colosseum

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'

Now it is the insurance industry's turn to cower.

ECONOMIST: The insurance industry