词汇 | browbeat |
词源 | browbeat. A browbeaten person is literally “someone who is beaten or put down by the knitted or wrinkled brow and frown of somebody else.” To browbeat, “to belittle someone with sternness, arrogance, or insolence,” is first recorded in 1581. |
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