Translations for „overawe“ in the English » Chinese Dictionary

overawe [ˌəʊvərˈɔː] VB trans

overawe

威慑 wēishè

overawe

吓住 xiàzhu

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I was overawed by the event and skied too carefully, he said later.

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Perhaps the most impressive thing is that he wasn't tempted to over-drive and most certainly wasn't overawed by the experience.

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Depicted as comically pompous, but possessed of great courage and able to overawe the other dragons of his colony in any debate.

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I'm not saying our players were overawed by it.

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Had they been overawed by the occasion or the opposition?

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Neither competition from other publishing houses nor even the so-called digital revolution overawes him.

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Not that it overawed him -- he didn't have time to let it do that.

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They were overawed before they walked out on the field, they didn't look overly excited about playing the game so it wasn't good.

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Some get a bit overawed by it, others take to it immediately.

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I don't want to be overawed by the situation and be able to just play.

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