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

• 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。
• I recommend shying away from recurring meetings. Everything you do with an hour should be a conscious decision.
  建议避免经常开会。因为所有要花费一小时去做的事情都应当是一个合理的决定。
• The White House is shying away from an overt lobbying effort to thwart the Iraq resolutions, as it might do more harm than good.
  白宫对阻止伊拉克增兵计划的决议不敢公开游说，因为这只会使事情变得更糟而不是更好。
• They were shying beans to the chickens.
  他们朝着鸡群撒豆子。
• Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion." mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.
  显然他以为我讨厌中饭时候提到的那种“关系”，但我告诉他他搞错了。
• Companies in the US raised more money through deals involving private placements than initial public offerings last year, demonstrating how issuers are increasingly shying away from the scrutiny and expense of the US public market.
  美国公司去年通过私募交易筹集的资金超过了首次公开发行（ipo）的筹资额，这表明，越来越多发行股票的公司正在规避美国公开市场的严格审查和高额成本。
• 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。
• His mind, as though shying away from something, seemed unable to concentrate.
  他的脑子有些想要躲开什么似的不能集中思考。
• Two small boys were shying stones at a tree.
  两个小男孩正在向一棵树扔石头。
• Do you notice those boys shying rocks at passing cars? They could cause an accident.
  你注意到那些男孩子向过路的小车乱丢石头吗？他们会造成交通事故的。