Timidity
[tɪ'mɪdətɪ] or [tɪ'mɪdəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities.
(noun.) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions.
费理斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
乔茜錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Timorousness, fearfulness, skittishness, shyness, cowardice, pusillanimity, want of courage.[2]. Diffidence, bashfulness, coyness, sheepishness, shamefacedness.
手打:波莉
例句/造句/用法:
- I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Almost for the first time in his life, Mr. Sedley found himself talking, without the least timidity or hesitation, to a person of the other sex. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- That is why we, the children of frontiersmen, city builders and immigrants, surprise Europe constantly with our worship of constitutions, our social and political timidity. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We were talking about your husband, Dorothea said, with some timidity. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She liked natural manners--a little timidity only set them off. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She did not move, and he came towards her with more doubt and timidity in his face than she had ever seen before. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But again the timidity of the wild thing in the face of human habitation swept over Tarzan of the Apes. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Did you ever see a counterfeit of timidity, Mr. Lorry? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Mrs. Archer and her group felt a certain timidity concerning these persons. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Then there came the voices of the two children calling shyly outside the door, softly, with self-excited timidity: 'Ursula! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I'm afraid they mightn't like it, began Laurie, with unusual timidity in such matters. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- His glance in reply to hers was so chill that she felt her timidity increased; yet she turned and passed her hand through his arm. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- For Jos's former shyness and blundering blushing timidity had given way to a more candid and courageous self-assertion of his worth. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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