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chick·en-liv·ered
chI kn lI vrd
adjective
fainthearted, cowardly
The first known use of chicken-livered was in 1804
1 a chicken-livered newspaper editor who has been afraid to take on the town's powerful business elite
2 Come back here, you couple of chicken - livered cowards.
给我回来, 你们这一对胆怯的脓包.
3 Under a dangerous situation, people become chicken livered sometimes.
在危险的情况下, 人们有时也会但怯.
4 Gary sure is a chicken - livered guy.
加里真是个胆小鬼.
5 Don't be chicken - livered, have a go - you stand as good a chance as anyone else.
别害怕, 试一下吧 —— 你和别人机会均等.
1 胆小的
milk-livered pigeonhearted harehearted henhearted chicken yellow milky coward timid fearsome cowardly craven tremulous diffident mousy timorous yellow-bellied fainthearted lily-livered rabbity cowardy white-livered faintheart poor-spirited pavid cowish
2 胆小
chicken-heart milk-livered pigeonhearted harehearted henhearted chicken yellow milky coward timid fearsome cowardly craven tremulous diffident mousy timorous yellow-bellied fainthearted lily-livered rabbity cowardy white-livered faintheart poor-spirited pavid cowish cowardice diffidence nervosity