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1 Weissmann repeatedly jabs at Zebley, comparing him unkindly to “timorous” Civil War Gen. George B. McClellan, whom President Lincoln famously relieved of his command in part over concerns he was not sufficiently aggressive.

2 It's prompted by phenomena that could actually occur, or almost have done, and should therefore scare the rationally oriented even more than timorous types.

3 Surprising fact: I had a vague view of Wilson as the timorous pacifist who kept the United States out of World War I and failed in his dream of the League of Nations.

4 The first is the discovery by a timorous and eminently respectable architect of the nude body of a murdered man, neatly disposed in his bathtub, decorated with a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez.

5 Belligerent, wounded, proud, timorous, and entitled—a man given to gaslighting and dissembling under pressure.

6 Some delegates believe the final declaration is likely to be too timorous.

一些代表认为最后的声明可能不够强硬。

7 For love is respectful, and timorous. (No. 97)

爱是尊敬的也是胆小的。

8 He remembers persuading the timorous Oldfield to play a live show by offering him the keys to his Bentley if he got through the performance.

9 She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.

10 At the time Russia revealed their new new weapon, U.S. national security thinkers did an obligatory round of timorous handwringing, but, other than that, the U.S. was largely—and strangely—silent.

11 The political case for moving deliberately but fearlessly toward impeachment is even clearer: If timorous Democrats do not seize and define this moment, Trump surely will.

12 India’s “surgical strikes” in 2016 in response to Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in Kashmir burnished the prime minister’s reputation for breaking with a timorous past even if the military damage done by these strikes was disputed.

13 Too timorous to protest the disrespect with which she WAS being treated, the young woman could only accept it with resignation.

这个年轻的女人太懦弱了以致无力抗争她所遭受的不敬，她只能接受这一事实。

14 “The result of failing to act can be much more catastrophic for us all than the worry about acting. Acting in a timorous and tentative way is the worst of all ways.”

15 Yet something about their emotional makeup allowed Reichl and Levine to muddle through circumstances that would have felled more timorous souls.

16 The court’s reasoning is as flawed as it is timorous.

17 He spoke with a timorous voice.

18 He was small in stature, timorous and shy by nature.

19 Because of his adventures, the Philosopher eventually recognizes that life shouldn’t be complacently “consecutive, but explosive and variable, else it is a shackled and timorous slave.”

20 All artists, even those who appear to be timorous, quavering messes, have a core of steel.

1 畏怯的

timid cowardly shy

2 胆小

chicken-heart milk-livered pigeonhearted harehearted henhearted chicken yellow milky coward timid fearsome cowardly craven tremulous diffident mousy yellow-bellied fainthearted lily-livered rabbity cowardy white-livered chicken-livered faintheart poor-spirited pavid cowish cowardice diffidence nervosity shy chickenhearted poltroonery cold feet chinless

3 胆怯

yellow nervous shy timid tremulous show the white feather in fear and trembling pigeon-hearted scary gutless diffident unmanly yellow-bellied lily-livered blate poor-spirited cowardly faintly shyly timidly timorously backwardly shyness timidity eeriness pusillanimity timidness unmanliness poltroonery recreancy timid as a hare meticulous coward fearsome dastardly gingerly skittish pusillanimous shily diffidence funk quail daunt lose nerve chicken intimidated fainthearted overawe craven faint-hearted chickenshit chicken out of doing chicken out of of doing chicken out

4 害怕的

frit nervous windy tremulous afraid scare

5 害怕

frit nervous windy tremulous fear dread funk misgiving afraid spook misgive doubt scare chill frighten put the wind up get the wind up lose nerve

6 腼腆的

shy backward timid coy demure sheepish bashful chary unassertive

7 易受惊吓的

shy jumpy skittery

8 腆的

shy backward retiring coy bashful chary gawky gawkish

9 畏怯

timid cowardly shrink intimidate

10 战战兢兢

timorously

11 易受惊的

timid shy squeamish

12 胆小的

milk-livered pigeonhearted harehearted henhearted chicken yellow milky coward timid fearsome cowardly craven tremulous diffident mousy yellow-bellied fainthearted lily-livered rabbity cowardy white-livered chicken-livered faintheart poor-spirited pavid cowish shy chickenhearted pusillanimous chickenshit chinless

13 胆怯的

yellow nervous shy timid tremulous pigeon-hearted scary gutless diffident unmanly yellow-bellied lily-livered blate poor-spirited timid as a hare funky milky fearful coward craven skittish pusillanimous weak-kneed unheroic chicken-hearted meticulous fearsome dastardly gingerly shily chicken intimidated fainthearted faint-hearted chickenshit

14 羞怯的

shy modest backward timid skittish aw-shucks diffident shamefaced blushful sheepish mousy bashful

15 恐惧的

afraid eerie apprehensive frit funky dreaded scare

16 恐惧

afraid eerie apprehensive fear nightmare phobia trepidation affright apprehend terrorize misgive in terror the creeps send chills up spine in cold sweat frit funky dreaded dither terror scare dread funk terrify sweat chill

17 羞怯

shy modest backward timid skittish aw-shucks diffident shamefaced blushful modesty diffidence pudency can not say boo to a goose sheepish mousy