音标与读法

这里为大家介绍下cowardly 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

中英文翻译

adj.,adv.

怯懦的〔地〕。

lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley

同义词：fearful,

例句与用法

1.He thought it would be cowardly to draw back .

他认为后退就是示弱。

2.The cowardly attack broke her .

这一懦怯的攻击把她打垮了。

3.It was cowardly of you not to admit your mistake .

你不承认错误就不是好样儿的。

4.He thought the letter cowardly and hypocritical .

他认为这封信写得既怯懦又伪善。

5.It was cowardly of him to retrograde in face of danger .

他很懦弱，临危时退却了。

6.I"m cowardly about things that remind me of myself .

我对那些使我回忆起往事的东西总感到胆怯。

7.She accused the government of a cowardly surrender in big-business interests .

她指责政府畏首畏尾屈从于大企业的利益。

8.He commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation .

他自己也开始哭起来，又连忙跑出去去掩盖他那怯弱的感情。

9.Of all forms of arrant untruthfulness victorian optimism appears to me to have been the most cowardly and the most damaging .

在一切形式的彻头彻尾的虚假中，在我看来维多利亚时代的乐观主义是最怯弱的也是最有害的。

10.It is enough to make the blood stop flowing in one"s veins to hear a man excuse this cowardly and beastly crime on the ground that it was "instinctive" !

居然有人以“本能”为借口来为这桩怯懦的、卑劣的罪行开脱，这话听了足以使人们血管里的血停止流动！

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