Coward
['kaʊəd] or ['kaʊɚd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who shows fear or timidity.
(noun.) English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973).
埃尔顿校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
(a.) Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
(a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
(n.) A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
(v. t.) To make timorous; to frighten.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Dastard, poltroon, craven, milksop.
整理:佩吉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Craven, dastard, recreant, poltroon, renegade
ANT:Champion, hero, daredevil, desperado
整理:诺里斯
解釋/意思:
n. a faint-hearted person: one without courage.—v.t. to intimidate.—adjs. Cow′ard Cow′ardly afraid of danger: timid: mean.—ns. Cow′ardice want of courage: timidity.—Cow′ardree (Spens.); Cow′ardliness.—adv. Cow′ardly.—n. Cow′ardship (Shak.) the quality of being a coward.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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例句/造句/用法:
- And you, last night, thinking about how you and your grandfather were so terrific and your father was a coward. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Forced to fly her husband's roof by this insult, the coward had pursued his revenge by taking her child from her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- God forgive me, Mr. Sedley, but you are no better than a coward, Mrs. O'Dowd said, laying down the book. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- From one year of war thou has become lazy, a drunkard and a coward. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Are you so afraid of one old man as to let him go, you coward? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He's a coward, sir—a miserable coward! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Coward, Pablo said bitterly. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The nervous terrors and fearful visions which had scared us during the spring, continued to visit our coward troop during this sad journey. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He was a coward, from head to foot; and showed his dastardly nature through his sullenness and mortification, as much as at any time of his mean life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Shoot the coward down, sir, Sedley roared. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One does not call John Carter coward and liar thus lightly, and Zat Arras should have known it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It's you who are the coward, he repeated, catching her hands in his. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- At bottom I am not a coward. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Under the shelling men had been cowards and had run. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- You are cowards. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Milton is not the place for cowards. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- In these cases the colonels were constitutional cowards, unfit for any military position; but not so the officers and men led out of danger by them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- You will give me the benefit of your self-possession, and not leave me at the mercy of agitated cowards? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Conscience made cowards of us both. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If HE'D been here, she said, those cowards would never have dared to insult me. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- De Bracy and I will instantly go among these shuffling cowards, and convince them they have gone too far to recede. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Shame on ye, false cowards! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You big dogs are all cowards, he said, addressing the animal contemptuously, with his face and the dog's within an inch of each other. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Fire, cowards, if you are alive, he shouted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And we dare not; poor cowards that we are! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Cowards skulk about the dead, pretending that they are fulfilling a duty, and many an army before now has been lost from this love of plunder. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Here there is nothing but idiots and cowards. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
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