英汉例句

• emirati businessman obeid mohammed recently bought four villas for a total of $1.7 million, just a little shy of half the $3.3 million he would have paid at the peak.

  阿联酋商人默罕默德（obeidmohammed）近期总共花费了170万美元购买了四套别墅，他说这些房子在价格高峰期要330万美元，目前的价格只略高于此前的一半。

• she paused, though, a little shy of me, a stranger.

  她顿了一下，在我这个陌生人面前还是有点儿害羞。

• i am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation; there is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.

  我不太愿意摆出一副义愤填膺的架势来，这里面总有某种自鸣得意的成分，会叫一个有幽默感的人觉得你在装腔作势。

• following this same case, working at 85% capacity means assuming that you’ll plan to do a little shy of 7 hours of work.

  按这样的道理，以「最大能力」的85%按排工作就是每天只计划略少于7小时的工作量。

• we feel a little shy of it, even awkward-like joe, the carpenter「s son, who」s been musing over my orchard gate for the last half-hour.

  我们会羞于表达，甚至感到尴尬——就像木匠的儿子乔伊，他刚刚在我的果园门外呆望了半个小时。

• i think in those days we were a little shy of our emotions, and the fear of ridicule tempered the more obvious forms of pretentiousness.

  我想在过去的日子里我们都羞于使自己的感情外露，因为怕人嘲笑，所以都约束着自己不给人以傲慢自大的印象。

• and they are lots of fun to play with. they're very curious and a little shy of people.

  跟它们在一起玩其乐无穷。它们非常好奇，还有点怕人。

• i am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation.

  我不太愿意摆出一副义愤填膺的架势来。