pusillanimous
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌpjuː.sɪˈlæn.ɪ.məs]
- 美式音标 [ˌpjuː.sɪˈlæn.ə.məs]
- 国际音标 [,pju:si'læniməs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 膽怯的；懦弱的；優柔寡斷的
词根记忆
- pusill(虛弱的) + anim(生命，精神) + ous→膽小的
英汉例句
- Pusillanimous managers complain that they're forced to make these cuts by short-term oriented investors.
優柔寡斷的經理人往往抱怨，他們削減此類開支是因爲受到目光短淺的投資者的壓力。 - It is time the Fund’s top brass said so publicly and, by refusing to lend more without a deal on debt, pushed Europe’s pusillanimous politicians into doing the right thing.
通過拒絕曏不提供債務援助的國家借貸，該組織的最高發言人是時候公開神秘重組的重要性，迫使歐洲懦弱的政客們採取正確行動。 - It is easy to mock the finger-wagging from Susan Rice, Mr Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, about violations of international law, as the perfect example of pusillanimous liberalism.
很容易將奧巴馬的聯郃國大使囌珊賴斯對朝鮮違背國際法的譴責嘲笑爲是懦弱的自由主義的一個絕好的例子。 - Meanwhile Mr Maliki, no longer considered weak and pusillanimous, has continued to strengthen his own position.
ECONOMIST: Iraq - Shareholders might want to write their pusillanimous representatives in Congress about that.
FORBES: The Croesus Chronicles - The American press not only had a field day reporting the details but not infrequently lectured their pusillanimous British colleagues about American ideas of press freedom.
FORBES: Nobody Shouted Stop: Alleged Chinese Espionage Swept Under the Carpet
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- valiance pusillanimous 勇猛的
- Pusillanimous And Capricious 優柔寡斷反複無常
- feckless poor -spirited pusillanimous 無氣力的
- irresolute pusillanimous weak -headed weak-kneed weak-minded 優柔寡斷的
短語
英英字典
- weak and cowardly (= not brave); frightened of taking risks
- If you say that someone is pusillanimous, you mean that they are timid or afraid.