| 单词 | timid |
| 释义 | tim·id 1. < timid, silent, crouching under oppression — J.R.Green > < a timid person would rather remain miserable than do anything unusual — Bertrand Russell > 2. a. < a timid policy > < a timid look > < their timid love of established ways — V.L.Parrington > b. < this intellectual life was timid, cautious and derivative — Van Wyck Brooks > < the darkness is broken by the timid flare of a lamp or a candle — Lewis Mumford > Synonyms: < meek, humble, timid persons, who accept things as they are, who tread in beaten paths, who are easily persuaded, who are cautious, prudent, and submissive — A.C.Benson > < in comparison with their fearlessness, their bold drawing, their dashing conception, their passion and action … how timid and conventional seemed his own friends — Edgar Johnson > timorous may imply stronger influence of or domination by apprehension, fear, or terror causing one to shrink from independence or decision < must have been a powerful, perhaps an insane, impulsion which drove the timorous, inconclusive Jesse, with his intuitive horror of guns, to send a bullet into his brain — S.H.Adams > < grew timorous and dejected, apprehending themselves to be haunted and possessed with vengeful spirits, on account of human blood that had been undeservedly split in this old town — William Bartram > |
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