shying

英 [ˈʃaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈʃaɪɪŋ]

v.  被吓退; 被惊走
shy的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 害羞的;腼腆的;怕生的
  Ashyperson is nervous and uncomfortable in the company of other people.
  1. She was a shy, quiet-spoken girl...
     她是个害羞、说话轻声细语的女孩。
  2. She was a shy and retiring person off-stage...
     她在现实生活中是个腼腆而且不善社交的人。
  3. He is painfully shy of women.
     他见到女人就十分害羞。
• ADJ-GRADED 犹豫的;不情愿的;害怕的;有所顾忌的
  If you areshy ofdoing something, you are unwilling to do it because you are afraid of what might happen.
  1. You should not be shy of having your say in the running of the school.
     在管理学校方面，你应该毫无顾忌地发表你的意见。
• VERB (马)惊走，惊退
  When a horseshies, it moves away suddenly, because something has frightened it.
  1. Llewelyn's stallion shied as the wind sent sparks flying.
     风一吹来，火星四溅，卢埃林的种马惊跳起来。
• 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳;一回吃亏两回学乖
  You say 'once bitten, twice shy' when you want to indicate that someone will not do something a second time because they had a bad experience the first time they did it.
• PHRASE 竭力避开;尽量避免
  If youfight shy ofsomething, you try very hard to avoid it.
  1. It is no use fighting shy of publicity and then complaining when sponsors pass us by...
     一边对做宣传避之不及，一边又抱怨赞助人与我们擦身而过，这样做是没有用的。
  2. Until now television had fought shy of covering by-elections.
     迄今为止电视台一直竭力避免报道补缺选举。
• PREP-PHRASE 未达到;欠缺;不足;不够
  A number or amount that is justshy ofanother number or amount is just under it.
  1. ...a high-school dropout rate just shy of 53%...
     几近53％的中学辍学率
  2. He died two days shy of his 95th birthday.
     他在离 95 岁寿辰仅差两天时去世了。

双语例句

• They are shying away from the full skirts, fur collars and bright colours of years past in favour of conservative yet original clothes.
  她们避开前几年流行的长裙、毛领和明亮的色彩，偏向传统而独创的服饰。
• Do you notice those boys shying rocks at passing cars? They could cause an accident.
  你注意到那些男孩子向过路的小车乱丢石头吗？他们会造成交通事故的。
• Yet it seems that actors at tonight's ceremony – who include British stars Helen Mirren, Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan – have been shying away from accepting the lavish giveaways.
  不过，似乎今晚仪式上的演员们包括英国女星海伦米伦，科林福斯和凯瑞‧穆里根，已经不好意思接受这麽奢侈的礼物了。
• Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion." mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.
  显然他以为我讨厌中饭时候提到的那种“关系”，但我告诉他他搞错了。
• They found that while men and women were equally academically able, a significant number of women were shying away from jobs in sectors such as banking and management consultancy fearing they would not be successful at them.
  他们发现，当男性和女性在学业上同等优异时，很大一部分女性却会因为畏惧而放弃银行和管理咨询这些领域的工作，因为她们害怕自己无法胜任。
• James Moloney manages to tackle this important issue in a very sensitive manner, without shying away from making some fairly strong statements.
  本书作者詹姆士莫宁以敏锐的方法来处理如此敏感的议题。而且他并不畏惧精准且有力的来陈述事实。
• Multinationals, particularly in Asia, are shying away from aggressive tax planning as tougher reporting requirements and a clampdown by tax authorities that started in the US spread to other parts of the world.
  跨国企业，特别是亚洲的跨国企业，目前纷纷规避激进的税收筹划，因为严格报告要求、由税务机关实施制裁的做法，已经从发源地美国扩散至世界其它地区。
• Rather than shying away from the boundary question which has been left over from history, we have agreed to advance the boundary negotiations.
  对历史遗留的边界问题，我们没有回避，一致同意继续推进边界问题谈判进程。
• With the advent of neo-evangelicalism, however, so-called "evangelical" Bible scholars are shying away from emphasizing the inspiration and doctrinal unity of Scripture.
  可是，随著所谓新福音派的兴起，很多《圣经》学者不再在他们的书中强调《圣经》的默示和《圣经》教义的合一性（统一性）。
• Next time you find yourself considering ( and perhaps shying away from) a multithreaded application design, you may want to turn instead to the JCSP library.
  下次您会发现，在您自己考虑（也可能要在躲避）多线程应用程序设计时，您可能想转而采用JCSP库。