| 词汇 | timorousness |
| 释义 | timorousness noun[ U ] literaryuk /ˈtɪm.ər.əs.nəs/ us /ˈtɪm.ɚ.əs.nəs/ the quality of being nervous and without confidence : 羞怯;胆小，胆怯 He has a touching mixture of timorousness and courage.他虽然胆怯，却仍能鼓起勇气，令人感动。 I was a determined young man who longed to conquer his own timorousness.我曾是一个坚定的年轻人，渴望战胜自己的胆怯。 See timorous Beneath that timorousness there's the remains of a person who had once been assured, strong, brave. There was in him a mixture of pride and stubborn timorousness. It is only our timorousness and lack of imagination which keep us from producing the plays. 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 timorousnesstimorousness However, it is a pity that such an interesting debate as this should be smothered under a blanket of timorousness. I suppose that that is another example of my timorousness in tackling problems with which her own party flatly refused to deal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Timidity, timorousness, faintheartedness, abhorrent in peace or war, in war are fatal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But everything in you that is flesh and blood and is timorousness and attachment to things of this earth must despair, so that you can not acquire external certainty. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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