shying的中文翻譯是什麼意思

ADJ-GRADED害羞的;靦腆的;怕生的

A shy person is nervous and uncomfortable in the company of other people.

• She was a shy, quiet-spoken girl...

  她是個害羞、說話輕聲細語的女孩。

• She was a shy and retiring person off-stage...

  她在現實生活中是個靦腆而且不善社交的人。

ADJ-GRADED猶豫的;不情願的;害怕的;有所顧忌的

If you are shy of doing something, you are unwilling to do it because you are afraid of what might happen.

• You should not be shy of having your say in the running of the school.

  在管理學校方面，你應該毫無顧忌地發表你的意見。

VERB(馬)驚走，驚退

When a horse shies, it moves away suddenly, because something has frightened it.

• Llewelyn's stallion shied as the wind sent sparks flying.

  風一吹來，火星四濺，盧埃林的種馬驚跳起來。

PHRASE一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩;一回吃虧兩回學乖

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竭力避開;儘量避免

If you fight shy of something, you try very hard to avoid it.

• It is no use fighting shy of publicity and then complaining when sponsors pass us by...

  一邊對做宣傳避之不及，一邊又抱怨贊助人與我們擦身而過，這樣做是沒有用的。

• Until now television had fought shy of covering by-elections.

  迄今為止電視臺一直竭力避免報道補缺選舉。

PREP-PHRASE未達到;欠缺;不足;不夠

A number or amount that is just shy of another number or amount is just under it.

• ...a high-school dropout rate just shy of 53%...

  幾近53％的中學輟學率

• He died two days shy of his 95th birthday.

  他在離 95 歲壽辰僅差兩天時去世了。