• vi. 畏縮；奉承；阿諛
• n. 畏縮；奉承

來自PIE*sker, 彎，轉，詞源同ring, curve. 詞義由彎，轉過渡到蜷縮，畏縮。

cringe

cringe: [13] Like crank, cringe appears to come ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic base *krank- whose original meaning was ‘bend’ or ‘curl up’. This produced an Old English verb crincan ‘fall in battle, yield’ (the association of ‘curling up’ and ‘dying’ is obvious), probable ancestor of modern English crinkle [14]. Crincan does not itself seem to be the source of cringe, which until the 16th century was usually spelled crenge or crench; to explain these eforms it is necessary to postulate *crencean, an unrecorded Old English causative derivative of crincan, meaning ‘cause to curl up’.
=> crank, crinkle

cringe (v.)

early 13c., from causative of Old English cringan "give way, fall (in battle), become bent," from Proto-Germanic *krank- "bend, curl up" (cognates: Old Norse kringr, Dutch kring, German Kring "circle, ring"). Related: Cringed; cringing. As a noun from 1590s.

1. Your foolish talk makes me cringe.

你說的蠢話使我厭煩.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. He abandoned every particle of self - respect cringe and fawn.

他把 自尊心 丟得一干二凈.

來自辭典例句

3. His way of sleeping makes me cringe.

他睡覺的方式令我生厭.

來自辭典例句

4. Those two words in the title might have made you cringe.

標題中的這兩個字可能會嚇你一跳.

來自互聯網

5. They can be impulsive , faithful and take risks others may cringe from.

在其他畏縮的時期,他們可能為所驅, 敦樸的擔當風險.

來自互聯網