A：you are like a bow and I, a violin. Together we can make music.
      “你是弓我是琴，共同谱出美好乐音。”

B：You're quoting from one of Herb's love letters?
      你在念赫伯情书里的东西啊？

A：Oh, yes. Actually, an internet love postcard.
      对啊。事实上，这是一张网络传情的明信片。

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B：An Internet love postcard, that's pretty strange.
      网络传情的明信片，有点奇怪。

A：And this morning there were flowers from Herb at my doorstep!
      而且今天早上我的门前阶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...
           他们向路易斯深深鞠躬，并忙不迭地给他让道。
    e.g. He bowed slightly before taking her bag.
           他微微欠身，然后接过了她的包。

2. 低（头）；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.

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    e.g. The Colonel bowed his head and whispered a prayer of thanksgiving...
           这位上校低头轻声做感恩祈祷。
    e.g. She stood still, head bowed, hands clasped in front of her.
           她一动不动地站着，低着头，双手紧扣在胸前。

3. 向（压力或他人的意愿）让步；屈从于；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...
           一些商店迫于顾客的压力，开始供应有机蔬菜。
    e.g. Parliament has bowed to the demand for a referendum next year.
           议会在人们的要求下已同意在明年举行全民公投。

4. 使沮丧；使不安；使无望
    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.
           他们绝不在联合攻击面前丧失斗志的坚定决心

5. (为形势所迫）低头，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.
           迫于形势他只好宣称愿意恢复外交关系。

6. （演员或表演者向观众）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.
           他们跑到帐篷中央鞠躬致意。

相关词组：bow downbow out

1. 船首；船头
    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.
           那时浪高大约有5英尺，船头在上下颠簸。
    e.g. ...the sight of that magnificent ship lit up from bow to stern.
           那艘豪华轮船从头到尾全被照亮的景象

1. （鞋带或丝带系成的）蝴蝶结
    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.
           再用一段丝带，系个蝴蝶结。

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.
           其中一些袭击者身背弓箭。

3. （小提琴等弦乐器的）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