Cowardice
['kaʊədɪs] or ['kaʊɚdɪs]
解释:
(n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
校对:托妮
同义词及近义词：
n. Pusillanimity, poltroonery, timidity, fear, cowardliness, the white feather.
编辑:罗伊
例句:
- Go and obscenity in the milk of thy cowardice, Pilar said to him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Yes, he said, there are all the evils which we were just now passing in review: unrighteousness, intemperance, cowardice, ignorance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- You have accused me of cowardice. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- We say people show the white feather when they display cowardice, because a white feather in a bird marks a cross breed, and it is not found on a fighting game-cock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Few people had discovered some cowardice and much infirmity of purpose under this imposing exterior. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- There is a base alloy of moral cowardice in my composition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She had spoiled the remembrance of Frederick's visit to herself by her own cowardice. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Think not I speak to thee only to excite thy terror, and practise on the base cowardice thou hast derived from thy tribe. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- That remains of the cowardice of this moment. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The smell of cowardice is too strong here. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I know too much about thee and thy cowardice. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The soul too has her own corrupting principles, which are injustice, intemperance, cowardice, and the like. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- They would but laugh in their sleeves and attribute his reason for wishing to leave the ship to but one thing--cowardice. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
录入:罗莎莉