Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it.

波洛对着我猛烈地摇着他的食指， 我在它面前畏缩了。

In 1938, as Austria's leaders quailed before the Anschluss, the Habsburgs' scion offered to return and rally resistance. Luckily, he didn't get there.

1938年，奥地利的领导者在纳粹德国吞并奥地利时畏缩了，哈普斯堡皇室提议奥托回去，大家集结起来一起抵抗。

Near a minute these two bold and untamed spirits stood regarding one another steadily in the eye, neither quailing in the least before the fierce gaze he encountered.

将近一分钟， 这两个大胆而野性的灵魂在眼睛中稳定地注视着彼此， 在他遇到的凶猛目光面前丝毫没有退缩。

I knew of none, and for an instant I quailed before the perils of invention; then I replied that I had never met any of his people, and again felt fortified by my veracity.

我什么都不知道，一瞬间我在发明的危险面前畏缩了；然后我回答说我从未见过他的任何人，我的诚实再次让我感到坚强。

It succeeded in enforcing submission from the jaded man this morning: his empoisoned system at this moment quailed before Bulstrode's cold, resolute bearing, and he was taken off quietly in the carriage before the family breakfast time.

今天早上，它成功地迫使这个疲惫不堪的人屈服：此时此刻，他被毒化的身体在布尔斯特罗德冷酷、果断的举止面前屈服了，在全家早餐时间之前，他被悄悄地带上了马车。