shying
英 [ˈʃaɪɪŋ]
美 [ˈʃaɪɪŋ]
v. 被吓退; 被惊走
shy的现在分词
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 害羞的;腼腆的;怕生的
Ashyperson is nervous and uncomfortable in the company of other people.- She was a shy, quiet-spoken girl...
她是个害羞、说话轻声细语的女孩。 - She was a shy and retiring person off-stage...
她在现实生活中是个腼腆而且不善社交的人。 - He is painfully shy of women.
他见到女人就十分害羞。
- She was a shy, quiet-spoken girl...
- ADJ-GRADED 犹豫的;不情愿的;害怕的;有所顾忌的
If you areshy ofdoing something, you are unwilling to do it because you are afraid of what might happen.- You should not be shy of having your say in the running of the school.
在管理学校方面,你应该毫无顾忌地发表你的意见。
- You should not be shy of having your say in the running of the school.
- VERB (马)惊走,惊退
When a horseshies, it moves away suddenly, because something has frightened it.- Llewelyn's stallion shied as the wind sent sparks flying.
风一吹来,火星四溅,卢埃林的种马惊跳起来。
- Llewelyn's stallion shied as the wind sent sparks flying.
- 一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳;一回吃亏两回学乖
You say 'once bitten, twice shy' when you want to indicate that someone will not do something a second time because they had a bad experience the first time they did it. - PHRASE 竭力避开;尽量避免
If youfight shy ofsomething, you try very hard to avoid it.- It is no use fighting shy of publicity and then complaining when sponsors pass us by...
一边对做宣传避之不及,一边又抱怨赞助人与我们擦身而过,这样做是没有用的。 - Until now television had fought shy of covering by-elections.
迄今为止电视台一直竭力避免报道补缺选举。
- It is no use fighting shy of publicity and then complaining when sponsors pass us by...
- PREP-PHRASE 未达到;欠缺;不足;不够
A number or amount that is justshy ofanother number or amount is just under it.- ...a high-school dropout rate just shy of 53%...
几近53%的中学辍学率 - He died two days shy of his 95th birthday.
他在离 95 岁寿辰仅差两天时去世了。
- ...a high-school dropout rate just shy of 53%...
双语例句
- The White House is shying away from an overt lobbying effort to thwart the Iraq resolutions, as it might do more harm than good.
白宫对阻止伊拉克增兵计划的决议不敢公开游说,因为这只会使事情变得更糟而不是更好。 - I recommend shying away from recurring meetings. Everything you do with an hour should be a conscious decision.
建议避免经常开会。因为所有要花费一小时去做的事情都应当是一个合理的决定。 - Yet it seems that actors at tonight's ceremony – who include British stars Helen Mirren, Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan – have been shying away from accepting the lavish giveaways.
不过,似乎今晚仪式上的演员们包括英国女星海伦米伦,科林福斯和凯瑞‧穆里根,已经不好意思接受这麽奢侈的礼物了。 - Do you notice those boys shying rocks at passing cars? They could cause an accident.
你注意到那些男孩子向过路的小车乱丢石头吗?他们会造成交通事故的。 - Companies cannot be blamed for shying away from nuclear projects if gas power looks faster, cheaper and more profitable.
如果天然气更便捷、更廉价、利润也更大的话,人们就不该责怪企业纷纷远离核项目。 - Psychology was once allowed to take its course by means of breaking away, giving up, shying away from or going beyond the cultural existence, but now it has to develop itself by taking in, illustrating, exploring or manifesting the cultural existence.
心理学曾经靠摆脱、放弃、回避或超越文化的存在来发展自己,但心理学现在必须靠容纳、揭示、探讨或体现文化的存在来发展自己。 - Next time you find yourself considering ( and perhaps shying away from) a multithreaded application design, you may want to turn instead to the JCSP library.
下次您会发现,在您自己考虑(也可能要在躲避)多线程应用程序设计时,您可能想转而采用JCSP库。 - Possible reasons put forward for this shift in attitude include smaller companies enjoying a better relationship with their banks, and financial institutions shying away from making large loans and preferring to deal with local groups, rather than multinationals.
这种态度转变的原因可能包括,小公司与有业务往来的银行关系更为紧密,并且金融机构不愿意发放大额贷款,同时更愿意与本国公司打交道,而不是跨国集团。 - Cheating in exam, falsifying in resume, plagiarizing in their papers, breaching when graduating, shying away from their loans take place again and again, which has been paid highly attention by all circle of society.
考试作弊、简历造假、论文抄袭、毕业违约、借贷不还等现象屡禁不绝,引起了社会各界的高度重视。 - And labour-market reforms are not all that he is shying away from.
他也不那么避讳谈及劳动力市场的改革。