Definition of flinch in English:

flinch

verb ˈflɪn(t)ʃflɪn(t)ʃ

[no object]

1Make a quick, nervous movement of the face or body as an instinctive reaction to fear or pain.
（因害怕或疼痛而）退缩，畏缩
she flinched at the acidity in his voice
他尖刻的话音令她畏缩。
he had faced death without flinching
他曾面对死亡毫不退缩。
Example sentencesExamples
- A machine exists which can find and grab slugs, without flinching, and work is in progress on an electricity generator which runs on slug flesh, which the robot would be able to stoke up and then plug into for refuelling.
- Dawn flinched at the pain but attempted to ignore it.
- This was a little disappointing considering the state of modern discreet body armour which could stop most rifle rounds without flinching.
- At the quick movement, Steele flinched instinctively and was wide awake.
- Raine flinched at his voice, her body tensing even more.
- A hand was extended to meet his grubby palm, he flinched at the sudden movement.
- Boy Gets Girl stares without flinching at the destruction of a woman's life, in a world where the innocent aren't guaranteed safety or security - and no one can do a thing about it.
- I flinched at my own doing and actually feared that I was going to leave my handprints on his perfect face.
- As the bubbles struck his body, he flinched in severe pain.
- Though he had steeled himself against the reaction, Raylf knew he still flinched at the tone.
- I watched as Christian-Zachery flinched at the sharp pain of the open cut.
- He softly brushed over the gash in my face, I flinched at the pain.
- She didn't notice how he flinched at her touch, almost as if it pained him.
- He flexed tired fingers and massaged his arm, then flinched at a twinge of pain in his chest.
- Without flinching, the Carlow contingent were on their feet, screaming and shouting in the sort of unbridled joy that's utterly oblivious to everything else.
- ‘The owner says I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching,’ Cleaveland said proudly.
- She only flinched at his words as she realized that her worst fear had come true, she had been kidnapped.
- I moved my bare toes slightly on the ground and flinched at the pain.
- ‘Richard and I have an extremely close relationship, and he's an absolutely fantastic boss,’ he says without flinching.
- I flinched at the unanticipated pain that surfaced suddenly.
Synonyms
wince, start, shy (away), recoil, shrink, pull back, back away, shy away, draw back, withdraw, blench, cringe, squirm, quiver, shudder, shiver, tremble, quake, shake, quail, cower, waver, falter, hesitate, get cold feet, blanch
1. 1.1flinch from Avoid doing or becoming involved in (something) through fear or anxiety.
  〈喻〉（因恐惧或焦虑而）对…退缩不前，从…退缩
  I rarely flinch from a fight when I'm sure of myself
  对自己有信心时，我很少惧怕斗争。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He did not flinch from speaking his mind.
  The album provides comfort without flinching from sadness and bitter fury.
  The affable MacFadzean flinches from pretension, but says his work is getting more pointed and political, a process he noticed while writing this piece.
  We proclaimed it long ago, and never flinched from practicing it since.
  He could smell the delicious odor of fear coming off her, but she had not flinched from her approaching death.
  A History Of Violence is, at heart, a simple story - a man is unable to hide his past as a killer - but it never ever flinches from showing the effects of violence in explicit detail.
  It is thematically strong, contains substantial roles for women and never flinches from what it sets out to do.
  Campbell's loyalty to Blair has never wavered and he has never flinched from confronting the journalists or newspapers who dared to stand in the way of the New Labour experiment.
  Elizabeth Long-ford does not flinch from laying historical truths bare, rendering her Wellington an involving work.
  He said: ‘But what has heartened me is the understanding I have found from every other world leader I have spoken to, of the necessity of not flinching from action.’
  I think Michael was brutally honest, he was direct, he never flinched from the most difficult questions.
  However, instead of flinching from the set-up, contrived to tame its workers, the restaurant defended that this was a strategy aimed at upgrading the quality of its employees, mostly young people.
  While a lot of people didn't mind doing the laundry, many flinched from ploughing through piles of ironing.
  She never flinched from taking me to task for tardiness and other ill-disciplined behaviour, albeit in the most tactful and casual manner, although I know that this was done out of a sense of concern.
  Even Englishmen who had some sneaking sympathy for the Stuart cause, you were to understand, must have flinched from its wild embodiment.
  Everyone knows what the objectives are and what our goals are and no-one has flinched from that.
  The families insisted that the filmmakers should not flinch from telling the real story for fear of upsetting them, he said.
  Tyler flinches from the window, his hair whipping across his face.
  He flinched from nothing when sometimes he should have.
  I have never underestimated the magnitude of the task before us, but nor have I flinched from my resolve that this is a road which the entire party must travel.
  Synonyms
  shrink, recoil, shy away, turn away, swerve, hang back, demur
  dodge, evade, avoid, duck, baulk at, jib at, quail at, fight shy of
  informal boggle at

noun ˈflɪn(t)ʃflɪn(t)ʃ

An act of flinching.
畏缩，退缩
‘Don't call me that,’ he said with a flinch
“别那样叫我，"他畏首畏尾地说。
Example sentencesExamples
- Renee crossed her arms, glaring up at Wil without a flinch.
- Without a flinch or missing a beat, Erial continued waltzing around the floor as Artemisia sighed and walked over and picked up the book.
- She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
- Wits's haircut went by smoothly without a flinch or complaint though as Finn began to feel more at ease with the scissors she became more and more careless.
- ‘The people of Nangoma are behind me and I have every reason to be confident,’ he says without a flinch or shade of doubt.
- Lazar met his disbelieving stare without a flinch - smiling, too.
- His ears flickered backwards, but only a flinch.
- ‘Ah, you must be Mr. Avery,’ said Wade in a voice that would have made anyone else in the room flinch.
- I was watching her face as the needle made first contact and guess what… not a flinch, flutter or grit of the teeth.
- He felt her hand clasp on top of his, but he didn't move his, not even a flinch as she touched.
- Preston soon realized this when she said nothing and didn't move, apart from the occasional flinch whenever she touched her bruise on her right arm.
- He could see that he had made the chaperone flinch.
- Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch.
- There was no room for a single flinch of the neck or chin.
- Christopher hesitantly reached up to hold the paper, giving a flinch when Sara's hands grabbed hold of his and guided the tearing action.
- With a flinch, she touched the place where his lips had been.
- Because of the cold I'm wearing figure hugging wool Long Johns which he suddenly notices with a flinch.
- Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its high jinks.
- ‘Your partner didn't think so,’ he countered, shifting his injured arm and forcing a flinch.
- Without a flinch, I hit the brakes and slid to a stop.
Synonyms
jerk, twitch, flinch, wince, spasm, convulsion, jump

Derivatives

flincher

noun ˈflɪn(t)ʃəˈflɪn(t)ʃər

Luckily for me, I'm not a flincher when it comes to needles.
Example sentencesExamples
- The flincher is the loser (This is why Jerrie needs to practice more. Shes a flincher).

flinching

nounˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋ

mass noun

The making of a quick, nervous movement as an instinctive reaction to fear, pain, or surprise.
（因害怕或疼痛而）退缩，畏缩
there can be no flinching in the face of our duty

flinchingly

adverbˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋliˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋli

For any of you who have sat university finals, or academic finals at any level, I am sure the scene is flinchingly familiar. ‘Tis the season, however, and next month a lot of lives, careers and hopes will take a turn for the better or the worse.
Example sentencesExamples
- He had said it sort of flinchingly, knowing I was a Mormon.
- She walks to me, slowly, flinchingly, and let's me engulf her in a hug.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'slink or sneak off'): from Old French flenchir 'turn aside', of West Germanic origin and related to German lenken 'to guide, steer'.

Rhymes

cinch, clinch, finch, inch, lynch, Minch, pinch, squinch, winch

Definition of flinch in US English:

flinch

verbflin(t)SHflɪn(t)ʃ

[no object]

1Make a quick, nervous movement as an instinctive reaction to fear, pain, or surprise.
（因害怕或疼痛而）退缩，畏缩
she flinched at the acidity in his voice
他尖刻的话音令她畏缩。
he had faced death without flinching
他曾面对死亡毫不退缩。
Example sentencesExamples
- Dawn flinched at the pain but attempted to ignore it.
- Though he had steeled himself against the reaction, Raylf knew he still flinched at the tone.
- This was a little disappointing considering the state of modern discreet body armour which could stop most rifle rounds without flinching.
- I flinched at my own doing and actually feared that I was going to leave my handprints on his perfect face.
- ‘Richard and I have an extremely close relationship, and he's an absolutely fantastic boss,’ he says without flinching.
- He softly brushed over the gash in my face, I flinched at the pain.
- Raine flinched at his voice, her body tensing even more.
- I flinched at the unanticipated pain that surfaced suddenly.
- As the bubbles struck his body, he flinched in severe pain.
- A machine exists which can find and grab slugs, without flinching, and work is in progress on an electricity generator which runs on slug flesh, which the robot would be able to stoke up and then plug into for refuelling.
- I watched as Christian-Zachery flinched at the sharp pain of the open cut.
- She didn't notice how he flinched at her touch, almost as if it pained him.
- Boy Gets Girl stares without flinching at the destruction of a woman's life, in a world where the innocent aren't guaranteed safety or security - and no one can do a thing about it.
- I moved my bare toes slightly on the ground and flinched at the pain.
- He flexed tired fingers and massaged his arm, then flinched at a twinge of pain in his chest.
- At the quick movement, Steele flinched instinctively and was wide awake.
- She only flinched at his words as she realized that her worst fear had come true, she had been kidnapped.
- ‘The owner says I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching,’ Cleaveland said proudly.
- A hand was extended to meet his grubby palm, he flinched at the sudden movement.
- Without flinching, the Carlow contingent were on their feet, screaming and shouting in the sort of unbridled joy that's utterly oblivious to everything else.
Synonyms
wince, start, shy, shy away, recoil, shrink, pull back, back away, draw back, withdraw, blench, cringe, squirm, quiver, shudder, shiver, tremble, quake, shake, quail, cower, waver, falter, hesitate, get cold feet, blanch
1. 1.1flinch from Avoid doing or becoming involved in (something) through fear or anxiety.
  〈喻〉（因恐惧或焦虑而）对…退缩不前，从…退缩
  I rarely flinch from a fight when I'm sure of myself
  对自己有信心时，我很少惧怕斗争。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Elizabeth Long-ford does not flinch from laying historical truths bare, rendering her Wellington an involving work.
  He said: ‘But what has heartened me is the understanding I have found from every other world leader I have spoken to, of the necessity of not flinching from action.’
  He did not flinch from speaking his mind.
  Campbell's loyalty to Blair has never wavered and he has never flinched from confronting the journalists or newspapers who dared to stand in the way of the New Labour experiment.
  We proclaimed it long ago, and never flinched from practicing it since.
  The album provides comfort without flinching from sadness and bitter fury.
  The affable MacFadzean flinches from pretension, but says his work is getting more pointed and political, a process he noticed while writing this piece.
  However, instead of flinching from the set-up, contrived to tame its workers, the restaurant defended that this was a strategy aimed at upgrading the quality of its employees, mostly young people.
  A History Of Violence is, at heart, a simple story - a man is unable to hide his past as a killer - but it never ever flinches from showing the effects of violence in explicit detail.
  He could smell the delicious odor of fear coming off her, but she had not flinched from her approaching death.
  She never flinched from taking me to task for tardiness and other ill-disciplined behaviour, albeit in the most tactful and casual manner, although I know that this was done out of a sense of concern.
  While a lot of people didn't mind doing the laundry, many flinched from ploughing through piles of ironing.
  It is thematically strong, contains substantial roles for women and never flinches from what it sets out to do.
  I have never underestimated the magnitude of the task before us, but nor have I flinched from my resolve that this is a road which the entire party must travel.
  I think Michael was brutally honest, he was direct, he never flinched from the most difficult questions.
  The families insisted that the filmmakers should not flinch from telling the real story for fear of upsetting them, he said.
  Even Englishmen who had some sneaking sympathy for the Stuart cause, you were to understand, must have flinched from its wild embodiment.
  He flinched from nothing when sometimes he should have.
  Tyler flinches from the window, his hair whipping across his face.
  Everyone knows what the objectives are and what our goals are and no-one has flinched from that.
  Synonyms
  shrink, recoil, shy away, turn away, swerve, hang back, demur

nounflin(t)SHflɪn(t)ʃ

An act of flinching.
畏缩，退缩
“Don't call me that,” he said with a flinch
“别那样叫我，"他畏首畏尾地说。
Example sentencesExamples
- Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its high jinks.
- Christopher hesitantly reached up to hold the paper, giving a flinch when Sara's hands grabbed hold of his and guided the tearing action.
- He felt her hand clasp on top of his, but he didn't move his, not even a flinch as she touched.
- Without a flinch or missing a beat, Erial continued waltzing around the floor as Artemisia sighed and walked over and picked up the book.
- Lazar met his disbelieving stare without a flinch - smiling, too.
- Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch.
- Because of the cold I'm wearing figure hugging wool Long Johns which he suddenly notices with a flinch.
- Preston soon realized this when she said nothing and didn't move, apart from the occasional flinch whenever she touched her bruise on her right arm.
- There was no room for a single flinch of the neck or chin.
- ‘Your partner didn't think so,’ he countered, shifting his injured arm and forcing a flinch.
- ‘Ah, you must be Mr. Avery,’ said Wade in a voice that would have made anyone else in the room flinch.
- I was watching her face as the needle made first contact and guess what… not a flinch, flutter or grit of the teeth.
- Without a flinch, I hit the brakes and slid to a stop.
- She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
- He could see that he had made the chaperone flinch.
- Wits's haircut went by smoothly without a flinch or complaint though as Finn began to feel more at ease with the scissors she became more and more careless.
- ‘The people of Nangoma are behind me and I have every reason to be confident,’ he says without a flinch or shade of doubt.
- Renee crossed her arms, glaring up at Wil without a flinch.
- With a flinch, she touched the place where his lips had been.
- His ears flickered backwards, but only a flinch.
Synonyms
jerk, twitch, flinch, wince, spasm, convulsion, jump

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘slink or sneak off’): from Old French flenchir ‘turn aside’, of West Germanic origin and related to German lenken ‘to guide, steer’.

词汇	flinch
释义	Definition of flinch in English: flinch verb ˈflɪn(t)ʃflɪn(t)ʃ [no object] 1Make a quick, nervous movement of the face or body as an instinctive reaction to fear or pain. （因害怕或疼痛而）退缩，畏缩 she flinched at the acidity in his voice 他尖刻的话音令她畏缩。 he had faced death without flinching 他曾面对死亡毫不退缩。 Example sentencesExamples A machine exists which can find and grab slugs, without flinching, and work is in progress on an electricity generator which runs on slug flesh, which the robot would be able to stoke up and then plug into for refuelling. Dawn flinched at the pain but attempted to ignore it. This was a little disappointing considering the state of modern discreet body armour which could stop most rifle rounds without flinching. At the quick movement, Steele flinched instinctively and was wide awake. Raine flinched at his voice, her body tensing even more. A hand was extended to meet his grubby palm, he flinched at the sudden movement. Boy Gets Girl stares without flinching at the destruction of a woman's life, in a world where the innocent aren't guaranteed safety or security - and no one can do a thing about it. I flinched at my own doing and actually feared that I was going to leave my handprints on his perfect face. As the bubbles struck his body, he flinched in severe pain. Though he had steeled himself against the reaction, Raylf knew he still flinched at the tone. I watched as Christian-Zachery flinched at the sharp pain of the open cut. He softly brushed over the gash in my face, I flinched at the pain. She didn't notice how he flinched at her touch, almost as if it pained him. He flexed tired fingers and massaged his arm, then flinched at a twinge of pain in his chest. Without flinching, the Carlow contingent were on their feet, screaming and shouting in the sort of unbridled joy that's utterly oblivious to everything else. ‘The owner says I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching,’ Cleaveland said proudly. She only flinched at his words as she realized that her worst fear had come true, she had been kidnapped. I moved my bare toes slightly on the ground and flinched at the pain. ‘Richard and I have an extremely close relationship, and he's an absolutely fantastic boss,’ he says without flinching. I flinched at the unanticipated pain that surfaced suddenly. Synonyms wince, start, shy (away), recoil, shrink, pull back, back away, shy away, draw back, withdraw, blench, cringe, squirm, quiver, shudder, shiver, tremble, quake, shake, quail, cower, waver, falter, hesitate, get cold feet, blanch 1.1flinch from Avoid doing or becoming involved in (something) through fear or anxiety. 〈喻〉（因恐惧或焦虑而）对…退缩不前，从…退缩 I rarely flinch from a fight when I'm sure of myself 对自己有信心时，我很少惧怕斗争。 Example sentencesExamples He did not flinch from speaking his mind. The album provides comfort without flinching from sadness and bitter fury. The affable MacFadzean flinches from pretension, but says his work is getting more pointed and political, a process he noticed while writing this piece. We proclaimed it long ago, and never flinched from practicing it since. He could smell the delicious odor of fear coming off her, but she had not flinched from her approaching death. A History Of Violence is, at heart, a simple story - a man is unable to hide his past as a killer - but it never ever flinches from showing the effects of violence in explicit detail. It is thematically strong, contains substantial roles for women and never flinches from what it sets out to do. Campbell's loyalty to Blair has never wavered and he has never flinched from confronting the journalists or newspapers who dared to stand in the way of the New Labour experiment. Elizabeth Long-ford does not flinch from laying historical truths bare, rendering her Wellington an involving work. He said: ‘But what has heartened me is the understanding I have found from every other world leader I have spoken to, of the necessity of not flinching from action.’ I think Michael was brutally honest, he was direct, he never flinched from the most difficult questions. However, instead of flinching from the set-up, contrived to tame its workers, the restaurant defended that this was a strategy aimed at upgrading the quality of its employees, mostly young people. While a lot of people didn't mind doing the laundry, many flinched from ploughing through piles of ironing. She never flinched from taking me to task for tardiness and other ill-disciplined behaviour, albeit in the most tactful and casual manner, although I know that this was done out of a sense of concern. Even Englishmen who had some sneaking sympathy for the Stuart cause, you were to understand, must have flinched from its wild embodiment. Everyone knows what the objectives are and what our goals are and no-one has flinched from that. The families insisted that the filmmakers should not flinch from telling the real story for fear of upsetting them, he said. Tyler flinches from the window, his hair whipping across his face. He flinched from nothing when sometimes he should have. I have never underestimated the magnitude of the task before us, but nor have I flinched from my resolve that this is a road which the entire party must travel. Synonyms shrink, recoil, shy away, turn away, swerve, hang back, demur dodge, evade, avoid, duck, baulk at, jib at, quail at, fight shy of informal boggle at noun ˈflɪn(t)ʃflɪn(t)ʃ An act of flinching. 畏缩，退缩 ‘Don't call me that,’ he said with a flinch “别那样叫我，"他畏首畏尾地说。 Example sentencesExamples Renee crossed her arms, glaring up at Wil without a flinch. Without a flinch or missing a beat, Erial continued waltzing around the floor as Artemisia sighed and walked over and picked up the book. She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch. Wits's haircut went by smoothly without a flinch or complaint though as Finn began to feel more at ease with the scissors she became more and more careless. ‘The people of Nangoma are behind me and I have every reason to be confident,’ he says without a flinch or shade of doubt. Lazar met his disbelieving stare without a flinch - smiling, too. His ears flickered backwards, but only a flinch. ‘Ah, you must be Mr. Avery,’ said Wade in a voice that would have made anyone else in the room flinch. I was watching her face as the needle made first contact and guess what… not a flinch, flutter or grit of the teeth. He felt her hand clasp on top of his, but he didn't move his, not even a flinch as she touched. Preston soon realized this when she said nothing and didn't move, apart from the occasional flinch whenever she touched her bruise on her right arm. He could see that he had made the chaperone flinch. Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch. There was no room for a single flinch of the neck or chin. Christopher hesitantly reached up to hold the paper, giving a flinch when Sara's hands grabbed hold of his and guided the tearing action. With a flinch, she touched the place where his lips had been. Because of the cold I'm wearing figure hugging wool Long Johns which he suddenly notices with a flinch. Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its high jinks. ‘Your partner didn't think so,’ he countered, shifting his injured arm and forcing a flinch. Without a flinch, I hit the brakes and slid to a stop. Synonyms jerk, twitch, flinch, wince, spasm, convulsion, jump Derivatives flincher noun ˈflɪn(t)ʃəˈflɪn(t)ʃər Luckily for me, I'm not a flincher when it comes to needles. Example sentencesExamples The flincher is the loser (This is why Jerrie needs to practice more. Shes a flincher). flinching nounˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋ mass noun The making of a quick, nervous movement as an instinctive reaction to fear, pain, or surprise. （因害怕或疼痛而）退缩，畏缩 there can be no flinching in the face of our duty flinchingly adverbˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋliˈflɪn(t)ʃɪŋli For any of you who have sat university finals, or academic finals at any level, I am sure the scene is flinchingly familiar. ‘Tis the season, however, and next month a lot of lives, careers and hopes will take a turn for the better or the worse. Example sentencesExamples He had said it sort of flinchingly, knowing I was a Mormon. She walks to me, slowly, flinchingly, and let's me engulf her in a hug. Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'slink or sneak off'): from Old French flenchir 'turn aside', of West Germanic origin and related to German lenken 'to guide, steer'. Rhymes cinch, clinch, finch, inch, lynch, Minch, pinch, squinch, winch Definition of flinch in US English: flinch verbflin(t)SHflɪn(t)ʃ [no object] 1Make a quick, nervous movement as an instinctive reaction to fear, pain, or surprise. （因害怕或疼痛而）退缩，畏缩 she flinched at the acidity in his voice 他尖刻的话音令她畏缩。 he had faced death without flinching 他曾面对死亡毫不退缩。 Example sentencesExamples Dawn flinched at the pain but attempted to ignore it. Though he had steeled himself against the reaction, Raylf knew he still flinched at the tone. This was a little disappointing considering the state of modern discreet body armour which could stop most rifle rounds without flinching. I flinched at my own doing and actually feared that I was going to leave my handprints on his perfect face. ‘Richard and I have an extremely close relationship, and he's an absolutely fantastic boss,’ he says without flinching. He softly brushed over the gash in my face, I flinched at the pain. Raine flinched at his voice, her body tensing even more. I flinched at the unanticipated pain that surfaced suddenly. As the bubbles struck his body, he flinched in severe pain. A machine exists which can find and grab slugs, without flinching, and work is in progress on an electricity generator which runs on slug flesh, which the robot would be able to stoke up and then plug into for refuelling. I watched as Christian-Zachery flinched at the sharp pain of the open cut. She didn't notice how he flinched at her touch, almost as if it pained him. Boy Gets Girl stares without flinching at the destruction of a woman's life, in a world where the innocent aren't guaranteed safety or security - and no one can do a thing about it. I moved my bare toes slightly on the ground and flinched at the pain. He flexed tired fingers and massaged his arm, then flinched at a twinge of pain in his chest. At the quick movement, Steele flinched instinctively and was wide awake. She only flinched at his words as she realized that her worst fear had come true, she had been kidnapped. ‘The owner says I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching,’ Cleaveland said proudly. A hand was extended to meet his grubby palm, he flinched at the sudden movement. Without flinching, the Carlow contingent were on their feet, screaming and shouting in the sort of unbridled joy that's utterly oblivious to everything else. Synonyms wince, start, shy, shy away, recoil, shrink, pull back, back away, draw back, withdraw, blench, cringe, squirm, quiver, shudder, shiver, tremble, quake, shake, quail, cower, waver, falter, hesitate, get cold feet, blanch 1.1flinch from Avoid doing or becoming involved in (something) through fear or anxiety. 〈喻〉（因恐惧或焦虑而）对…退缩不前，从…退缩 I rarely flinch from a fight when I'm sure of myself 对自己有信心时，我很少惧怕斗争。 Example sentencesExamples Elizabeth Long-ford does not flinch from laying historical truths bare, rendering her Wellington an involving work. He said: ‘But what has heartened me is the understanding I have found from every other world leader I have spoken to, of the necessity of not flinching from action.’ He did not flinch from speaking his mind. Campbell's loyalty to Blair has never wavered and he has never flinched from confronting the journalists or newspapers who dared to stand in the way of the New Labour experiment. We proclaimed it long ago, and never flinched from practicing it since. The album provides comfort without flinching from sadness and bitter fury. The affable MacFadzean flinches from pretension, but says his work is getting more pointed and political, a process he noticed while writing this piece. However, instead of flinching from the set-up, contrived to tame its workers, the restaurant defended that this was a strategy aimed at upgrading the quality of its employees, mostly young people. A History Of Violence is, at heart, a simple story - a man is unable to hide his past as a killer - but it never ever flinches from showing the effects of violence in explicit detail. He could smell the delicious odor of fear coming off her, but she had not flinched from her approaching death. She never flinched from taking me to task for tardiness and other ill-disciplined behaviour, albeit in the most tactful and casual manner, although I know that this was done out of a sense of concern. While a lot of people didn't mind doing the laundry, many flinched from ploughing through piles of ironing. It is thematically strong, contains substantial roles for women and never flinches from what it sets out to do. I have never underestimated the magnitude of the task before us, but nor have I flinched from my resolve that this is a road which the entire party must travel. I think Michael was brutally honest, he was direct, he never flinched from the most difficult questions. The families insisted that the filmmakers should not flinch from telling the real story for fear of upsetting them, he said. Even Englishmen who had some sneaking sympathy for the Stuart cause, you were to understand, must have flinched from its wild embodiment. He flinched from nothing when sometimes he should have. Tyler flinches from the window, his hair whipping across his face. Everyone knows what the objectives are and what our goals are and no-one has flinched from that. Synonyms shrink, recoil, shy away, turn away, swerve, hang back, demur nounflin(t)SHflɪn(t)ʃ An act of flinching. 畏缩，退缩 “Don't call me that,” he said with a flinch “别那样叫我，"他畏首畏尾地说。 Example sentencesExamples Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its high jinks. Christopher hesitantly reached up to hold the paper, giving a flinch when Sara's hands grabbed hold of his and guided the tearing action. He felt her hand clasp on top of his, but he didn't move his, not even a flinch as she touched. Without a flinch or missing a beat, Erial continued waltzing around the floor as Artemisia sighed and walked over and picked up the book. Lazar met his disbelieving stare without a flinch - smiling, too. Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch. Because of the cold I'm wearing figure hugging wool Long Johns which he suddenly notices with a flinch. Preston soon realized this when she said nothing and didn't move, apart from the occasional flinch whenever she touched her bruise on her right arm. There was no room for a single flinch of the neck or chin. ‘Your partner didn't think so,’ he countered, shifting his injured arm and forcing a flinch. ‘Ah, you must be Mr. Avery,’ said Wade in a voice that would have made anyone else in the room flinch. I was watching her face as the needle made first contact and guess what… not a flinch, flutter or grit of the teeth. Without a flinch, I hit the brakes and slid to a stop. She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch. He could see that he had made the chaperone flinch. Wits's haircut went by smoothly without a flinch or complaint though as Finn began to feel more at ease with the scissors she became more and more careless. ‘The people of Nangoma are behind me and I have every reason to be confident,’ he says without a flinch or shade of doubt. Renee crossed her arms, glaring up at Wil without a flinch. With a flinch, she touched the place where his lips had been. His ears flickered backwards, but only a flinch. Synonyms jerk, twitch, flinch, wince, spasm, convulsion, jump Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘slink or sneak off’): from Old French flenchir ‘turn aside’, of West Germanic origin and related to German lenken ‘to guide, steer’.
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