timorous
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈtɪm.ər.əs]
- 美式音标 [ˈtɪm.ɚ.əs]
- 国际音标 ['timərəs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.膽怯的，羞怯的
- adv.膽怯地，羞怯地
- n.羞怯，膽怯
词根记忆
- tim(膽怯) + orous→膽怯的
- tim(膽怯) + orous→膽怯的→膽小的
同根派生
- adj性質的同根詞
- timid：膽小的；羞怯的。
- adv性質的同根詞
- timidly：羞怯地；膽小地。
- timorously：羞怯地；容易受驚地。
- n性質的同根詞
- timidity：膽怯，膽小；羞怯。
- timidness：羞怯；膽小。
- timorousness：膽怯；容易受驚。
英汉例句
- But, if more timorous souls are not prepared to do so, can they be put to any other use before they are thrown away?
但是，要是更多的人膽小不敢這樣做，在扔掉胎磐之前能否將它們用在別処？ - Finally, Jack's owner, Donna Dickey, called the cat inside, and the timorous trespasser disappeared back into the woods.
最後，傑尅的主人唐娜迪尅喚廻了傑尅貓，那衹膽怯的入侵者才廻頭消失在了樹林裡。 - In 1769 the first of the timorous poets, Thomas Gray, was on the scene shuddering pleasurably at the mountains’ “dreadful bulk”.
1769年，膽小的詩人湯姆斯•格雷，第一次站在湖區的深山裡，滿心愉悅，震憾於這“可怕龐大的高山”。 - As the Chinese continues sweeping up dissidents in preparation for the August games, these timorous governments may come under pressure from their people to voice some protests.
NPR: Tibet Crisis Impacts China's Olympics - India has had a few of these in the 1990s, and some say that prime ministers who know their tenures will be short try to get more done than the timorous and long-serving.
ECONOMIST: Aim higher - But European boards are not timorous.
ECONOMIST: Executive pay
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- timorous unflinching 膽小的
- timorous susceptibility 善恐
- Zeinab timorous 女性英文名字
- Timorous Deep 提莫拉絲深淵;深懼洋
- dauntless timorous 不退縮
短語
英英字典
- nervous and without much confidence
- If you describe someone as timorous, you mean that they are frightened and nervous of other people and situations.
- If you describe someone's actions or decisions as timorous, you are criticizing them for being too cautious or weak, because the person is not very confident and is worried about the possible consequences of their actions.