A：you are like a bow and I, a violin. Together we can make music.
      “你是弓我是琴，共同譜出美好樂(lè)音?！?/p>

B：You're quoting from one of Herb's love letters?
      你在念赫伯情書里的東西啊？

A：Oh, yes. Actually, an internet love postcard.
      對(duì)啊。事實(shí)上，這是一張網(wǎng)絡(luò)傳情的明信片。

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B：An Internet love postcard, that's pretty strange.
      網(wǎng)絡(luò)傳情的明信片，有點(diǎn)奇怪。

A：And this morning there were flowers from Herb at my doorstep!
      而且今天早上我的門前階梯上有一束赫伯送的花！

1. 鞠躬，欠身（打招呼或表示恭敬）
    When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.

    e.g. They bowed low to Louis and hastened out of his way...
           他們向路易斯深深鞠躬，并忙不迭地給他讓道。
    e.g. He bowed slightly before taking her bag.
           他微微欠身，然后接過(guò)了她的包。

2. 低（頭）；俯（首）
    If you bow your head, you bend it downwards so that you are looking towards the ground, for example because you want to show respect or because you are thinking deeply about something.

bow的意思

    e.g. The Colonel bowed his head and whispered a prayer of thanksgiving...
           這位上校低頭輕聲做感恩祈禱。
    e.g. She stood still, head bowed, hands clasped in front of her.
           她一動(dòng)不動(dòng)地站著，低著頭，雙手緊扣在胸前。

3. 向（壓力或他人的意愿）讓步；屈從于；屈服于
    If you bow to pressure or to someone's wishes, you agree to do what they want you to do.

    e.g. Some shops are bowing to consumer pressure and stocking organically grown vegetables...
           一些商店迫于顧客的壓力，開始供應(yīng)有機(jī)蔬菜。
    e.g. Parliament has bowed to the demand for a referendum next year.
           議會(huì)在人們的要求下已同意在明年舉行全民公投。

4. 使沮喪；使不安；使無(wú)望
    If you are bowed by something, you are made unhappy and anxious by it, and lose hope.

    e.g. ...their determination not to be bowed in the face of the allied attacks.
           他們絕不在聯(lián)合攻擊面前喪失斗志的堅(jiān)定決心

5. (為形勢(shì)所迫）低頭，屈服
    If someone bows to the inevitable and does something that they do not want to do, they do it, because circumstances force them to do it.

    e.g. He bowed to the inevitable and announced that he was willing to resume diplomatic relations.
           迫于形勢(shì)他只好宣稱愿意恢復(fù)外交關(guān)系。

6. （演員或表演者向觀眾）鞠躬致意
    If an actor or entertainer takes a bow, he or she shows appreciation of an audience's applause by bowing to them.

    e.g. They ran to the center of the tent to take their bows.
           他們跑到帳篷中央鞠躬致意。

相關(guān)詞組：bow downbow out

1. 船首；船頭
    The front part of a ship is called the bow or the bows. The plural bows can be used to refer either to one or to more than one of these parts.

    e.g. The waves were about five feet now, and the bow of the boat was leaping up and down.
           那時(shí)浪高大約有5英尺，船頭在上下顛簸。
    e.g. ...the sight of that magnificent ship lit up from bow to stern.
           那艘豪華輪船從頭到尾全被照亮的景象

1. （鞋帶或絲帶系成的）蝴蝶結(jié)
    A bow is a knot with two loops and two loose ends that is used in tying shoelaces and ribbons.

    e.g. Add a length of ribbon tied in a bow.
           再用一段絲帶，系個(gè)蝴蝶結(jié)。

2. 弓
    A bow is a weapon for shooting arrows which consists of a long piece of curved wood with a string attached to both its ends.

    e.g. Some of the raiders were armed with bows and arrows.
           其中一些襲擊者身背弓箭。

3. （小提琴等弦樂(lè)器的）弓，琴弓
    The bow of a violin or other stringed instrument is a long thin piece of wood with fibres stretched along it, which you move across the strings of the instrument in order to play it.

4. another string to your bow -> see string