解释
- adj. 胆小的；羞怯的
※ 提供单词"timid"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。
中文词源
timid 胆怯的，胆小的
来自拉丁语 timere,使恐惧，可能来自 PIE*teme,黑暗的，词源同 temerity,tenebrous.
英文词源
- timid
- timid: [16] The Latin verb timēre meant ‘fear’ (its origins are not known). From it were derived the adjective timidus (source of English timid) and the noun timor ‘fear’ (whose medieval Latin descendant timorōsus ‘fearful’ gave English timorous [15]).
=> timorous - timid (adj.)
- 1540s, from Middle French timide "easily frightened, shy" (16c.) and directly from Latin timidus "fearful, afraid, cowardly," from timere "to fear," of uncertain origin. Related: Timidly; timidness.
例句和用法
- 1. The newspaper called the plan timid and unimaginative.
- 该报称这一计划谨小慎微，毫无想象力。
- 2. He stopped in the doorway, too timid to go in.
- 他在门口停住了脚步，不好意思进去。
- 3. He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.
- 他太胆小,不敢从事任何事业.
- 4. He is timid by nature.
- 他生性胆小.
- 5. The rabbit is timid and suspicious.
- 兔子胆小而多疑.
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