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

• Companies cannot be blamed for shying away from nuclear projects if gas power looks faster, cheaper and more profitable.
  如果天然气更便捷、更廉价、利润也更大的话，人们就不该责怪企业纷纷远离核项目。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Malaysian companies are probably shying away from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as they have little knowledge of the opportunities in these two countries.
  马来西亚公司很可能回避土库曼斯坦和乌兹别克斯坦因为他们所知甚少的机会在这两个国家。
• 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。
• Psychology was once allowed to take its course by means of breaking away, giving up, shying away from or going beyond the cultural existence, but now it has to develop itself by taking in, illustrating, exploring or manifesting the cultural existence.
  心理学曾经靠摆脱、放弃、回避或超越文化的存在来发展自己，但心理学现在必须靠容纳、揭示、探讨或体现文化的存在来发展自己。
• 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。