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小词详解 | timid
timid 英 [ˈtɪmɪd] 美 [ˈtɪmɪd]
Mr Juncker’s proposals, which are now before the European Parliament, are more timid.
容克的提案比较谨小慎微,目前已提交欧洲议会审议。
——《经济学人》When girls become women, this fear manifests as deference and timid decision making.
当女孩变成女人后,这种恐惧就会体现为顺从和决策时的腼腆。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 表现出缺乏勇气或信心的;易受惊吓的
一个把肥胖部位也错认作曼妙曲线的羞怯而娴静的姑娘
a timid and demure girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve命运宠爱勇敢者,但是抛弃胆小者。我们最好还是开始干起来,别再闲荡了。
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. We'd better get started and stop fiddling about.
批评总统的人认为他在应对风云变幻的国际局势时过于瞻前顾后。他总是从这一时的犹豫不决摇摆到下一刻的犹豫不决。
The President's critics say he has been too timid in responding to changing international developments. He always lurches from indecision to indecision.
She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth.
她才十八岁,聪明,胆怯,由于无知和年轻,充满着种种幻想。
fearful: feeling afraid; showing fear or anxiety apprehensive: anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen diffident: modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence