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

• And labour-market reforms are not all that he is shying away from.
  他也不那么避讳谈及劳动力市场的改革。
• Cheating in exam, falsifying in resume, plagiarizing in their papers, breaching when graduating, shying away from their loans take place again and again, which has been paid highly attention by all circle of society.
  考试作弊、简历造假、论文抄袭、毕业违约、借贷不还等现象屡禁不绝，引起了社会各界的高度重视。
• 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。
• 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。
• I recommend shying away from recurring meetings. Everything you do with an hour should be a conscious decision.
  建议避免经常开会。因为所有要花费一小时去做的事情都应当是一个合理的决定。
• Bribery-reporting websites have been burgeoning over the weekend, allowing Internet users to share their experiences in giving bribes though shying away from revealing corrupt figures.
  只一个周末的时间，搜集行贿事件的网站犹如雨后春笋般纷纷登场。网民可以在此类网站上分享自己的行贿经历，但对受贿人的个人信息要避而不谈。
• 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。
• He thinks some people, especially younger investors, have'overlearned'the lesson of2008 and therefore are shying away from the stock market too much.
  他认为，一些人（特别是较年轻的投资者）因2008年的教训而矫枉过正，远远避开了股市。
• Two small boys were shying stones at a tree.
  两个小男孩正在向一棵树扔石头。
• Until the Fed stepped in, new CP issuance had been virtually frozen as the banks and money market funds are shying away from non guaranteed credit.
  直到美联储介入之前，新的商业票据发行实际上已被冻结，因为银行和货币市场基金对非信贷保证票据纷纷回避。