timorous

常見(jiàn)例句

雙語(yǔ)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(shù)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(shī)人湯姆斯?格雷，第一次站在湖區(qū)的深山裡，滿心愉悅，震憾於這“可怕龐大的高山”。

權(quán)威例句

• 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
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