查询词典 timid

He is an old, timid, beaten-down aristocrat who has fallen on hard times.

他是一个古老的，胆怯，遭打压贵族谁下降的困难时期。

People are often vain of their passions,even of the worst,but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

人们常常自负于他们的激情，甚至是罪恶的激情；而嫉妒却是一种既羞怯又羞耻的激情，以致于没有人敢于坦诚自己拥有它。

He is like a timid bather, putting in one foot and then drawing it swiftly back again-and while he hesitates some bolder spirit dashes in and beats him to the goal.

他就像一个害羞的洗澡的人，伸出一只脚在水里探了一下就立马收回来，正当他犹豫的时候，一些不利的思想乘虚而入，使他们与成功失之交臂。

Be timid of/about/to do sth.

不敢做某事；对做某事感到害怕

They must be neither contemptuous of the poor nor timid before the great.

对贫贱者不可轻慢，对富贵者不可怯懦。

But her little bolder than the needle is still small, will be scared half to death to see the mouse, so people called her timid roses.

可是她的胆子很小，比针尖还小，见到老鼠也会吓得半死，所以别人又叫她胆小玫瑰。

Patient submissiveness; statement that one is quitting a job 屈从;顺从;辞职书,辞呈 If Bob Cratchit had not accepted Scrooge's bullying with timid resignation, he might have gotten up the nerve to hand in his resignation.

假使鲍勃·克拉奇特对斯克鲁奇的欺侮不是怯懦地逆来顺受，那他可能会鼓起勇气递交辞呈了。

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

他的防守很棒的，只是今年的上场太少了。

He is a timid boy; it's impossible for him to brawl with anyone.

他是一个胆小的男孩，他不可能和任何人吵架。

Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went away.

有时，人们看见一个形容笨拙的青年，一只胳臂夹着几本书，神气腼腆而莽撞，溜进那街角上的肉铺子，挤在一些嘴里没好话、把他东推西撞的厨娘中间，一进门便摘下帽子，满额头的汗珠直冒，对那受宠若惊的老板娘深深一鞠躬，继又对砍肉的伙计另外行个礼，要一块羊排骨，付六个或七个苏，用张纸把它裹上，夹在胳膊下的两本书中走了。

I use an example quoted by Hu Jiaqi:"It is reported that America separates the DNA of a kind of virus by making use of genetic technology and combines it with another kind of DNA. Finally, they get a kind of virulent biological agent called a "pyrotoxin". Someone discloses in private that 20 grams of such a kind of biological agent could result in the global death of 6 billion people due to infection."

我在这里例举胡家奇所引用过的例子："据报道，美国利用转基因技术，将一种病毒的DNA分离出来，与另外一种DNA进行结合，拼结成一种剧毒的"热毒素"生物战剂，且私下有人透露，这种生物战剂只需20克，就可以导致全球60亿人全部感染死亡。"

Waiting, for the queers and the coons and the Reds and the Jews.

等待着疯子和黑人还有红色共产主义者还有犹太人