pusillanimous

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Pusillanimous managers complain that they're forced to make these cuts by short-term oriented investors.
優(yōu)柔寡斷的經(jīng)理人往往抱怨，他們削減此類開支是因?yàn)槭艿侥抗舛虦\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.
通過拒絕向不提供債務(wù)援助的國家借貸，該組織的最高發(fā)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采取正確行動。
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(lián)合國大使蘇珊賴斯對朝鮮違背國際法的譴責(zé)嘲笑為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.
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Shareholders might want to write their pusillanimous representatives in Congress about that.
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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.
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If you say that someone is pusillanimous, you mean that they are timid or afraid.