bashful

英 [ˈbæʃfl]

美 [ˈbæʃfl]

adj.  羞怯的; 忸怩的

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BNC.32929 / COCA.22828

牛津词典

adj.

• 羞怯的；忸怩的
  shy and easily embarrassed

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 害羞的；腼腆的；忸怩的
  Someone who isbashfulis shy and easily embarrassed.
  1. He seemed bashful and awkward...
     他看起来腼腆且局促不安。
  2. In our culture we tend to be bashful about our talents and skills.
     在我们的文化中，我们往往羞于谈论自己的才干和技能。
  3. ...a bashful young lady.
     腼腆的年轻女子

英英释义

adj

• disposed to avoid notice
  1. they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it
  Synonym:blate
• self-consciously timid
  1. I never laughed, being bashfu

双语例句

• The boy was too bashful to ask her to dance.
  那个男孩太羞怯，不敢请她一起跳舞。
• He seemed bashful and awkward
  他看起来腼腆且局促不安。
• We all know you to be a very bashful man.
  我们都知道你是个脸皮薄的人。
• The girl's bashful "Thank you", sounding like that of a silver-bell, seeped into my ears.
  一声银铃般的少女羞涩的话音，沁入我的耳畔。
• She is rather bashful.
  她有点怕羞。
• At first he was bashful about the notoriety which the newspaper caused.
  最初他对报纸给他引起的狼藉名声感到很害羞。
• She is like the bashful goddess Susan in the Greek mythology who is taking shower.
  她像希腊神话中洗澡的女神苏珊，不肯让人窥见。
• The girl betrayed in her smile and half-averted looks the bashful tenderness of her sex.
  从这位姑娘那微笑和斜睇的眼睛里流露出女性的娇羞和温柔。
• I would n't be so bashful, Fellowes said, pouring out the pink gins.
  “要是我，可不这么腼腆，”费娄威斯一边说一边往杯子里倒杜松子药酒。
• I'm very sociable, but my baby is so bashful that it's a problem taking her out.
  我非常喜欢交际，但是我的孩子很害羞，带她出去是一个问题。