Timorous
['tɪm(ə)rəs] or ['tɪmərəs]
解释:
(a.) Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.
(a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.
整理:温弗雷德
同义词及近义词：
a. Fearful, TIMID.
整理:莉莲
例句:
- A solemn silence; Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady serious, the fat gentleman captious, and Mr. Miller timorous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Widows, gentlemen, are not usually timorous, as my uncle used to say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Even ignorant infancy appeared with timorous shrieks and convulsions to acknowledge the presence of unseen powers. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I know few things more affecting than that timorous debasement and self-humiliation of a woman. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
整理:莉莲