蜷缩

Exhortations for action— huddle together under a table during a powerful quake—might be for talismanic effect.

人们被普遍教导，发生强烈地震时要蜷缩着藏匿在桌子下面，这个方式可能是很有效的。

Ugly lay in a wet circle, his back legs and lower back twisted out of shape, a gaping tear in the white strip of fur that ran down his front.

丑小猫躺在那儿，湿漉漉的身子蜷缩着，后腿和背部下半部分严重变形，头部毛皮的白色条纹处有一个撕开的裂口。

People all over the world were surrounded happiness else me. i got in the telephone box, i wonder whether the box can light my spirit?

整个世界都是幸福，不过我没有被感染，而后拉开了红色的电话亭，蜷缩进去，是否我能被它的红色点燃？

I asked myself if I were storming a castle to save a Sleeping Beauty from the jaws of death, and in the melee, my sword of truth flew swift and sure and killed an unfortunate outlaw huddled nearby, how would I feel?

我问我自己，换作是我赶到城堡从死神手中救下睡美人，而在混战中，我的真理之剑毫不犹豫地杀死了不巧蜷缩在附近的一个逃犯，我会是什么感受？

Most of the people waiting were huddled under a roadway underpass, shivering with wet clothing and hair.

大多数人头发和衣服都是湿的，蜷缩在地下通道中，坚持等待着。

Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall

他们套着短裤蜷缩在没有剃须的房间，焚烧纸币于废纸篓中隔墙倾听恐怖之声

There is immense unthinking cruelty discreetly coiled within the assurance that everyone can discover happiness through work and love.

有一种非常强烈的无思想的残忍深思熟略的蜷缩在相信每个人都能从工作和爱中发现幸福的信念中。

Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.

爱丽丝蜷缩在树林下，以及她，对她的脖子，一直在纠缠间分行，不时她不得不停止untwist它。

"Cowering" is used to here to mean that in the light of overwhelming ideology and uproarious times, one is under strong pressure to react differently - to have no alternatives, to yield, to escape or be self-consoling.

"蜷缩"意旨在强大的意识形态和喧嚣的时代背景中，个人在强势力量的挤压下做出的种种被迫反应：无奈、屈从、逃避或自我慰抚。

Near the cannons stood a waggon with a pair of horses harnessed to it.

这辆车的车轮后面，蜷缩着四只戴项圈的猎犬。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。