shy

英 [ʃaɪ] 美 [ʃaɪ]

解释

※ 提供单词"shy"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

shy 羞怯的，腼腆的，怕生的

来自古英语 sceoh,害羞的，来自 Proto-Germanic*skiuhwaz,害羞的，畏惧的，可能来自 PIE*skeu, 隐藏，遮盖，词源同 hide,shun.

shy 投掷，乱扔

词源不详，可能来自 shoot 俚语形式，常见于游戏名 coconut shy.

shy: shy: Shy ‘timid, reserved’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skeukhwaz ‘afraid’ (source also of English eschew and skew). It is generally assumed that shy ‘throw’ [18] must have come from it, but the exact nature of the relationship between the two words is not clear. The original application of the verb seems to have been specifically to the throwing of sticks at chickens, and it has been suggested, not altogether convincingly, that its use alludes to the notion of a ‘shy’ cockerel that refuses to fight (there was an 18th- and early 19th-century slang term shy-cock which meant ‘cowardly person’).
=> eschew, skew
shy (adj.): late Old English sceoh "timid, easily startled," from Proto-Germanic *skeukh(w)az "afraid" (cognates: Middle Low German schüwe, Dutch schuw, German scheu "shy;" Old High German sciuhen, German scheuchen "to scare away"). Uncertain cognates outside Germanic, unless in Old Church Slavonic shchuti "to hunt, incite." Italian schivare "to avoid," Old French eschiver "to shun" are Germanic loan-words. Meaning "lacking, short of" is from 1895, American English gambling slang. Related: Shyly; shyness.
shy (v.1): "to throw (a missile) with a jerk or toss," 1787, colloquial, of unknown origin and uncertain connection to shy (adj.). Related: Shied; shying.
shy (v.2): "to recoil," 1640s, from shy (adj.). Related: Shied; shying.

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1. She was a shy, delicately pretty girl with enormous blue eyes.: 她是一个害羞、娇美的女孩，长着一双大大的蓝眼睛。

4. The publicity-shy singer spoke frankly in his first interview in three years.: 这位不喜欢抛头露面的歌手在3年来的首次访谈中畅所欲言。