| 单词 | shy |
| 释义 | shy I. 1. a. < a diminutive mouse deer, shiest of them all — Virginia Hamilton > b. < fled down the forest glade with shy and subtle steps — Elinor Wylie > 2. < the gorilla is sullen, untamable and ferocious, shy, wary, and slow-moving — Weston La Barre > < a boy is shy of a girl who does not have these proofs of efficiency — Margaret Mead > 3. a. < not in the least shy about disclosing the secrets of their craft to the uninstructed — Listener > < travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice — Charles Dickens > < shy of assuming the moral attitude — W.S.Maugham > b. < may well be rather shy of reverting to topics that are not … yet exhausted — F.R.Leavis > < very shy about the actual condition and number of the … navy — G.M.Dallas > < scholars had been shy of these documents, for fear of their destroying the authority of the … text — Edmund Wilson > 4. a. < shy in the presence of strangers and bold with people she knew well — Sherwood Anderson > < the boy shy and sidelong with adolescence's indecisive shames and inferiorities — Ruth Park > < of a shy modesty and excessive fear of intrusion which often obscured his real … worth — H.E.Starr > b. < spoke in a shy, delicate voice, hushed and bookish — Irwin Shaw > < remembered her childlike look … and shy tremulous grace — Oscar Wilde > 5. < the shy recesses of the woodland — George Meredith > < the shy, almost sly, processes of evolution — Holbrook Jackson > < some shy intuition on the edge of consciousness that would disappear if looked at directly — F.R.Leavis > 6. a. < sells off his shy breeders annually > < is a shy bloomer in the house — Bessie Buxton > < the greengage … is a shy bearer — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > b. (1) < looks about 10 years shy of his 62 — E.P.Snow > < could get $2000 on a GI loan but would still be $6000 shy — N.M.Clark > (2) 7. < gambling hells and shy saloons — Blackwood's > Synonyms: < a shy youth, uneasy with girls > < the young people seemed shy, almost apprehensive. None stepped forward to greet the stranger; they seemed rather to shrink from him, whispering together in little groups — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > bashful implies a frightened or hesitant shyness, often characteristic of childhood or awkward adolescence < he became increasingly bashful, and he never had a close friend of either sex — R.J.Donovan > < bashful children afraid of the guests > diffident may apply to a shyness arising from lack of confidence or distrust in one's ability or personality < a small-town youth, unsure, diffident, reaching toward friendship with noble minds, and then drawing back with an unmannerly shrug — H.S.Canby > < too diffident a man to have much truck with girls — Nevil Shute > modest may indicate absence of any undue self-confidence or conceit < the board in its report cautions scientists to be modest and restrained when they step beyond their special fields in expression of opinions as citizens — Vannevar Bush > < the modest procedure is not to avow loudly, not to protest too much, our love of truth — G.W.Sherburn > coy may suggest an artful or coquettish affectation of shyness and hesitation < coy, like the no's of a woman who has decided in advance to yield — James Burnham > < the ladies of the chansons are not coy, and often make the first advances. Such natural lusty love is not romantic — H.O.Taylor > II. intransitive verb 1. < here an old liberal should begin to shy; to halt and wonder — Ernest Barker > — often used with at or from < shied at the publicity guns trained on him — Eloise Hazard > < the conservative court … had shied from the idea of encouraging revolutionaries — Oscar Handlin > 2. < always shied at this particular spot — Laura Krey > < falls that thump the shying trout — Allen Tate > < seemed to shy, white-eyed, from the figure … on the kitchen floor — Kenneth Roberts > 3. < does not come near to touching this point, but shies away into … misleading examples — Times Literary Supplement > < candidates shied away as soon as they heard the old pastor had not been paid — R.C.Wood > < you shy off me because I am not your sort — Elizabeth Bowen > and sometimes with clear < always shied clear of publicity — Fortune > transitive verb < in trade it is a dangerous thing to shy danger — Isak Dinesen > Synonyms: see demur III. < thrown by the horse's unexpected shy > IV. transitive verb < boys who delighted in shying stones at her fowls — H.A.Overstreet > intransitive verb < young men … shying for coconuts — Adrian Bell > V. 1. 2. < took a few shies at the integrity of his opponent > 3. < made a few shies at orchestral recording — Roland Gelatt > 4. |
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