bow

1. V-I When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body toward them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect. 鞠躬

They bowed low to Louis and hastened out of his way. 他們曏路易斯深深地鞠躬竝迅速給他讓路。

2. N-COUNT Bow is also a noun. 鞠躬

I gave a theatrical bow and waved. 我誇張地鞠了一躬，然後揮了揮手。

3. V-T If you bow your head, you bend it downward so that you are looking toward the ground, for example, because you want to show respect or because you are thinking deeply about something. 低下 (頭)

The Colonel bowed his head and whispered a prayer of thanksgiving. 上校低下頭，低聲感恩禱告。

4. V-I If you bow to pressure or to someone's wishes, you agree to do what they want you to do. 屈從

Some stores are bowing to consumer pressure and stocking organically grown vegetables. 有些商店屈於消費者的壓力，供應有機蔬菜。

V-I

1. N-COUNT 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. 船頭

The waves were about five feet high now, and the bow of the boat was leaping up and down. 浪頭現在約有五英尺高，船頭上下顛簸。

N-COUNT

1. N-COUNT A bow is a knot with two loops and two loose ends that is used in tying shoelaces and ribbons. 蝴蝶結

Add a length of ribbon tied in a bow. 加一段打成蝴蝶結的緞帶。

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

Some of the raiders were armed with bows and arrows. 有些媮襲者配備了弓箭。

3. N-COUNT The bow of a violin or other stringed instrument is a long thin piece of wood with fibres stretched along it that you move across the strings of the instrument in order to play it. 琴弓

4. V to form or cause to form a curve or curves 使彎曲