| 词汇 | yellow-bellied |
| 释义 | yellow-bellied adjective uk /ˈjel.əʊˌbel.id/ us /ˈjel.oʊˌbel.id/ yellow-belliedadjective (NOT BRAVE)informaldisapproving not brave and easily frightened: 胆怯的，胆小的（出自美国牛仔用语，把胆小鬼喻为黄腹啄木鸟） They called him "a yellow-bellied wimp" and "a coward".他们称他为“黄腹懦夫”和“胆小鬼”。 Synonyms chickenchild's word cravenformaldisapproving fainthearted lily-liveredliterary pusillanimousformal timid weak-kneedinformaldisapproving yellow(NOT BRAVE)informal Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don't you attack somebody who can fight back? "Real" men are meant to have the "stomach for a fight" and should never be " yellow-bellied". They laughed at his yellow-bellied (they didn't use that phrase but the implication was clear enough) refusal to climb up a ladder. Cowardly be afraid of your own shadowidiom bottle bottle out chicken chicken out cravenness fainthearted gutless lily-livered pantywaist spinelessly spinelessness timid timidity timidly uncourageous unheroic weak-kneed wimp wimp out yellow-belliedadjective (ANIMAL/BIRD)having a yellow belly(= under part of the body): 黄腹的 Yellow-bellied marmots fatten themselves all summer and then hibernate.黄腹土拨鼠整个夏天都在养肥自己，然后冬眠。 Among the items received in the park laboratory was a coiled eight-foot-long yellow-bellied snake. I used to wake up in the morning and hear the yellow-bellied meadowlarks singing. Nesting on a high ledge were two lammergeiers or yellow-bellied vultures. Relating to particular parts of the body abdominal abdominally abdominis adnexa anally coronary gastric intracardiac nasal nasally nasopharyngeal nephric nephritic neurological ocular synaptic synaptically tubal vaginal vaginally |
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