but children were then too cowed to let them know how they really felt.
孩子们只不过被吓得不敢让父母知道自己的想法罢了。
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 34 Adolescence

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

really ['riəlɪ] 词频1
adv. 真，真正;实在，果真;实际上;事实上;
💡 real真实的+ly表副词 →真正地
"Tom was really hungry and ate up everything served."
汤姆确实饿坏了,把端到桌上的东西吃得精光.
近义：honestly, indeed, just, authentically, particularly, properly 反义：hypocritically, insincerely, lyingly, meretriciously, misleadingly, untruthfully
know [no] 词频1 词根: 知道
v. 知道;了解;认识;确信; n. 知情;
💡 知道know的人爱说自己不no知道
"Do you know your ABC?"
你认识所有的字母吗？
近义：learn, understand, get, cognize, comprehend, meet
felt [[felt]] 词频1
n. 毛毯, 毡\\nvt. 制毡, 使粘结\\nvi. 粘结\\nfeel的过去式和过去分词
近义：full, velour
children ['tʃɪldrən] 词频1
n. 孩子们(child的复数);儿童;膝下;孥;
"Children must learn socially acceptable behaviour."
儿童必须学会社会上认可的行为举止。
近义：kids, bambini, bambinos, offspring, progeny, scions 反义：parentage
cowed
vt. 恐吓（cow的过去式与过去分词形式）
近义：frightened

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

Everyone knows that if he shouts in the vicinity of a wall or a mountainside, an echo will come back.
大家都知道，在墙壁或山腰附近发出的喊声，就会听到回声。
The modern city consists of monstrous edifices,
今日现代化的城市由大得吓人的高楼
and yet one might be cautious about believing this statement.
不过，人们不会轻信她的抱怨。
After all, all living creatures live by feeding on something else, whether it be plant or animal, dead or alive, and it is only by chance that such a fate is avoided.
因为一切生物都是靠吃别的东西来活命的，不管这种东西是植物还是动物，死的还是活的，因此，生物偶尔才能避免被吃掉的命运。
Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?
某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？
to overcome all but the most instantly fatal illnesses and accidents.
了暴病而死或意外事故外，至少足以克服一切一般疾病和事故。