pusillanimous
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?pju?.s??l?n.?.m?s]
- 美式音標(biāo) [?pju?.s??l?n.?.m?s]
- 國際音標(biāo) [,pju:si'l?nim?s]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- adj. 膽怯的;懦弱的;優(yōu)柔寡斷的
詞根記憶
- pusill(虛弱的) + anim(生命,精神) + ous→膽小的
同根派生
- adv性質(zhì)的同根詞
- pusillanimously:膽怯地,怯懦地;優(yōu)柔寡斷地。
- n性質(zhì)的同根詞
- pusillanimity:膽怯;無氣力;優(yōu)柔寡斷。
英漢例句
- Pusillanimous managers complain that they're forced to make these cuts by short-term oriented investors.
優(yōu)柔寡斷的經(jīng)理人往往抱怨,他們削減此類開支是因爲(wèi)受到目光短淺的投資者的壓力。 - It is time the Fund’s top brass said so publicly and, by refusing to lend more without a deal on debt, pushed Europe’s pusillanimous politicians into doing the right thing.
通過拒絕曏不提供債務(wù)援助的國家借貸,該組織的最高發(fā)言人是時(shí)候公開神秘重組的重要性,迫使歐洲懦弱的政客們採取正確行動(dòng)。 - It is easy to mock the finger-wagging from Susan Rice, Mr Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, about violations of international law, as the perfect example of pusillanimous liberalism.
很容易將奧巴馬的聯(lián)郃國大使囌珊賴斯對(duì)朝鮮違背國際法的譴責(zé)嘲笑爲(wèi)是懦弱的自由主義的一個(gè)絕好的例子。 - Meanwhile Mr Maliki, no longer considered weak and pusillanimous, has continued to strengthen his own position.
ECONOMIST: Iraq - Shareholders might want to write their pusillanimous representatives in Congress about that.
FORBES: The Croesus Chronicles - The American press not only had a field day reporting the details but not infrequently lectured their pusillanimous British colleagues about American ideas of press freedom.
FORBES: Nobody Shouted Stop: Alleged Chinese Espionage Swept Under the Carpet
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權(quán)威例句
詞組短語
- valiance pusillanimous 勇猛的
- Pusillanimous And Capricious 優(yōu)柔寡斷反複無常
- feckless poor -spirited pusillanimous 無氣力的
- irresolute pusillanimous weak -headed weak-kneed weak-minded 優(yōu)柔寡斷的
短語
英英字典
- weak and cowardly (= not brave); frightened of taking risks
- If you say that someone is pusillanimous, you mean that they are timid or afraid.