sit on one's heels
同义词:squat??/??crouch??/??scrunch??/??scrunch up??/??hunker
take shelter
hold stubbornly to a position
Watch as the business community hunkers down trying to salvage what it can.
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Expensive millennial celebrations will be cancelled as one half of the country goes crazy and the other half hunkers down and holds its breath.
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Now, it hunkers down and resumes a hyperfocus on the business.
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