timorous

常见例句

But, if more timorous souls are not prepared to do so, can they be put to any other use before they are thrown away?
但是，要是更多的人胆小不敢这样做，在扔掉胎盘之前能否将它们用在别处？
Finally, Jack's owner, Donna Dickey, called the cat inside, and the timorous trespasser disappeared back into the woods.
最后，杰克的主人唐娜迪克唤回了杰克猫，那只胆怯的入侵者才回头消失在了树林里。
In 1769 the first of the timorous poets, Thomas Gray, was on the scene shuddering pleasurably at the mountains’ “dreadful bulk”.
1769年，胆小的诗人汤姆斯•格雷，第一次站在湖区的深山里，满心愉悦，震憾于这“可怕庞大的高山”。

As the Chinese continues sweeping up dissidents in preparation for the August games, these timorous governments may come under pressure from their people to voice some protests.
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India has had a few of these in the 1990s, and some say that prime ministers who know their tenures will be short try to get more done than the timorous and long-serving.
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But European boards are not timorous.
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