Cautious
['kɔːʃəs] or ['kɔʃəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) showing careful forethought; 'reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions'; 'a cautious driver' .
(adj.) avoiding excess; 'a conservative estimate' .
手打:朱迪--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
亨利錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Prudent, wary, careful, heedful, chary, circumspect, discreet, watchful, vigilant.
手打:南希
同義詞及反義詞：
[See CIRCUMSPECT]
迪莉娅編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If a man of my cunning cannot circumvent this dull-headed— Cautious. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Cautious, very cautious, thought Emma; he advances inch by inch, and will hazard nothing till he believes himself secure. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- We were very wrong before; we will be cautious now. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious player, and usually rose a winner. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- An old philosophical friend of mine was grown, from experience, very cautious in this particular, and carefully avoided any intimacy with such people. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- And Briggs promised to be very cautious. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its _being created_. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- With cautious speech, good council take, Beware! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- But Gutenberg was by nature cautious. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- As he pronounced these words aloud, a voice very near him called out in a low and cautious tone, Wamba! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In the first place we should be extremely cautious in inferring, because an area is now continuous, that it has been continuous during a long period. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Your thervant, Thquire,' was his cautious salutation as they passed in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Well, I will make this cautious Englishman do as I wish. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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