lily-livered
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- 英式音標 [?l?l.i?l?v.?d]
- 美式音標 [?l?l.i?l?v.?d]
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基本解釋
- adj.膽怯的
英漢例句
- But its lily-livered approach might, in fact, be the right one.
但實際上這種膽小的做法也許是正確的。 - The Tory right cheered, knowing which alternative, non-lily-livered model of prime minister he had in mind.
托利黨右派歡呼雀躍，他們知道他心裡想的不膽怯的的替代首相是誰。 - Mr Awad is a former fighter from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, not a lily-livered pacifist.
Awad先前是黎巴嫩一座巴勒斯坦難民營的好戰(zhàn)分子，而非怯懦的和平主義者。 - The more lily-livered Arab states, who shunned Libya, can now perhaps be forgiven, under the latest banner, Arab-African unity.
ECONOMIST: Libya and Africa