| 词汇 | timorously |
| 释义 | timorously adverb literaryuk /ˈtɪm.ər.əs.li/ us /ˈtɪm.ɚ.əs.li/ in a way that is nervous and without confidence: 羞怯地;胆小地，胆怯地 She went timorously up the steps, and after a time dared to cross the threshold.她胆怯地走上台阶，过了一会儿才敢跨过门槛。 "We could have a rethink," he suggested timorously.“我们可以重新考虑一下，”他胆怯地建议道。 See timorous Seeing some huts we timorously tapped on the door of one. To suggest that the board was cowering timorously before the Government is ludicrous. They sat in silence the entire time, occasionally asking timorously, 'Teacher, can you spell that again?'' Cowardly be afraid of your own shadowidiom bottle bottle out chicken chicken out cravenness fainthearted gutless lily-livered pantywaist spinelessly spinelessness timid timidity timidly unheroic weak-kneed wimp wimp out wimpy Examples of timorouslytimorously It did not break in, or almost never, and very timorously at that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much more relevant is the situation in which the landlord timorously fails to issue either an offer to sell or a notice of refusal; in other words, does nothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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