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

• 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。
• Possible reasons put forward for this shift in attitude include smaller companies enjoying a better relationship with their banks, and financial institutions shying away from making large loans and preferring to deal with local groups, rather than multinationals.
  这种态度转变的原因可能包括，小公司与有业务往来的银行关系更为紧密，并且金融机构不愿意发放大额贷款，同时更愿意与本国公司打交道，而不是跨国集团。
• Two small boys were shying stones at a tree.
  两个小男孩正在向一棵树扔石头。
• 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。
• 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。
• Multinationals, particularly in Asia, are shying away from aggressive tax planning as tougher reporting requirements and a clampdown by tax authorities that started in the US spread to other parts of the world.
  跨国企业，特别是亚洲的跨国企业，目前纷纷规避激进的税收筹划，因为严格报告要求、由税务机关实施制裁的做法，已经从发源地美国扩散至世界其它地区。
• 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。
• The reports fuelled concerns that US consumers, hit by the housing market slump, rising petrol prices and an escalating credit crisis were shying away from the shops.
  这份报告令投资者担心，受住宅市场下滑、汽油价格不断上涨，以及信贷危机不断升级的影响，美国消费者的购物兴趣正在减弱。
• 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。
• 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。