| 单词 | cautious |
| 释义 | cau·tious < cautious in all his movements, always acting as if surrounded by invisible spies — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < too cautious and too conservative to seek any revolutionary end — V.L.Parrington > Synonyms: < meek, humble, and timid persons …, who are cautious, prudent, and submissive, leave things very much as they find them — A.C.Benson > < we were cautious in keeping to windward of them, their sense of smell and hearing being … extremely acute — Herman Melville > < cautious, deliberate, methodical, he was in no danger, she felt, of plunging precipitately into marriage — Ellen Glasgow > Without connoting fear, as cautious does, circumspect stresses prudence, discretion, vigilance, and consideration of consequences < the packages were examined by the police and found to contain bombs … for the next few days people in high station were very circumspect about undoing brown paper packages — F.L.Allen > < they do not live very happy lives, for they even more than the others are restricted in their movements, and they must live the most circumspect of lives — John Steinbeck > wary implies suspicious alertness to danger, difficulty, or loss, and cunning in escaping or evading it < a wary old rabbit stealing out at dawn with quivering nose and oscillating ears — Kenneth Roberts > < we must always be wary of those who with sounding brass and tinkling cymbal preach the ‘ism’ of appeasement — F.D.Roosevelt > < girls like her …, wild and lost and lonely, full of distrust, letting him approach with a wary look in their eyes as if they would dash away before he could touch them — Katherine A. Porter > chary stresses hesitancy, reserve, and discretion in proceeding < the high priests were chary of adding tumult to tumult, and they did not dare to take action against Reb Jacob — Maurice Samuel > < contempt for the chattering fool runs through the Edda. Let a man be chary of speech — H.O.Taylor > < my business experience has taught me to be chary of committing anything of a confidential nature to any more concrete medium than speech — William Faulkner > calculating stresses very deliberate and careful planning < Aunt Ella, ostensibly meek, confused, helpless, and self-effacing, has actually a steel core of calculating purposiveness and a genius for devious expedients; under the appearance of tender sisterly devotion she fights by methods of sly sabotage a lifelong duel — Wilson Follett > Sometimes this word connotes not care and caution but a cold-blooded objectivity approaching disdain of and even cruelty to others < that selfish and calculating principle has taken … the form of a national and racial egoism that has turned a continent into a shambles — J.L.Lowes > |
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