Timorous
['tɪm(ə)rəs] or ['tɪmərəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.
(a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.
整理:温弗雷德
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Fearful, TIMID.
整理:莉莲
例句/造句/用法:
- A solemn silence; Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady serious, the fat gentleman captious, and Mr. Miller timorous. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Widows, gentlemen, are not usually timorous, as my uncle used to say. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Even ignorant infancy appeared with timorous shrieks and convulsions to acknowledge the presence of unseen powers. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I know few things more affecting than that timorous debasement and self-humiliation of a woman. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
整理:莉莲