词汇释义
flinch TEM8 GRE
UK /flɪntʃ/ US/flɪntʃ/
1. verb, If you flinch, you make a small sudden movement, especially when something surprises you or hurts you. 退缩，畏缩
2. verb, If you flinch from something unpleasant, you are unwilling to do it or think about it, or you avoid doing it.躲避，回避，不愿意做
3. noun, an act of flinching. 畏缩，退缩
外刊例句
1. After the Chauvin verdict, Scott signaled he would not flinch from his plan to, as he put it, “repair the tenuous relationship between law enforcement and Black and minority Americans.”(Washington Post)
2. If the US flinches, it will be taken by Mr Putin as licence to extend what he sees as his “sphere of influence” in Europe – possibly by force.(Washington Times)
3. Through last year, inmates would flinch whenever they heard the jangle of thick key rings as a larger-than-normal contingent of guards entered their floor.(Washington Times)
4. “Empanadas, one dollar and twenty-five,” he would bellow as the barbers continued cutting hair without flinching.(New York Times)
5. The owl seemed unbothered by the small cluster of people pointing and taking pictures far below, and barely flinched when a Cooper’s hawk screamed and swooped by its branch.(New York Times)
6. But Ms. Sanner’s defenders dispute those accounts, saying she never flinched when Mr. Trump raised objections or tried to talk politics.(New York Times)
7. Mr. Biden is starting on the right foot, announcing from the outset that he is prepared to engage on important business but also that he will not flinch at Mr. Putin’s unpleasant and dark arts.(Washington Post)
8. “People aren’t flinching at the price of the product. If they want something, they’re going to get outside, no matter what.”(Seattle Times)
9. Farmers flinch when talking about killing off animals early or plowing crops into the ground, for fear of public wrath.(Reuters)
10. China then retaliated just before U.S. markets were due to open with $60 billion worth of tariffs of its own but still traders barely flinched.(Reuters)
11. When you’re playing your own map, the game is no longer your adversary — every involuntary flinch at a distant scream is a sign that you’ve captured a little of the system’s power.(The Verge)
12. "Don't be the city or the state that flinches every time a corporation flexes its muscles," said Seattle Councilwoman Theresa Mosqueda during a press briefing.(Fox News)
词汇搭配
barely, hardly flinch | almost, never flinch | make sb flinch | flinch at, from, with | with, without flinch
词汇来源
1570s, apparently a nasalized form of obsolete Middle English flecche "to bend, flinch," which probably is from Old French flechir "to bend" (Modern French fléchir), also flechier "to bend, turn aside, flinch," which probably are from Frankish *hlankjan or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hlinc- (source also of Middle High German linken, German lenken "to bend, turn, lead"), from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn" (see link (n.)). There were nasalized form of the word in Old French as well (flenchir "to bend; give ground, retreat"). Related: Flinched; flinching. As a noun, "the action of flinching," from 1817.
近义词
blench, cringe, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince
反义词
advance, approach, challenge, confront, defy, face
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