though immaculately clean and comfortable, and in a beautiful setting, it is a clinic, not a spa: there’s no namby-pamby faffing around with rose petals and whale music.
he was thought to be too namby-pamby by his friends.
他的朋友们认为他太多愁善感了。
all this might sound a bit namby-pamby to pioneers like sister dong (who says that she hasn’t had a holiday for 20 years) and zhang yin (who boasts that: 「my success came from my character」).
the difference is that dr abe is not using namby-pamby x-rays and gamma rays to mutate her crop, as is the way in most other countries.
不同之处在于他们没有像其他国家一样,利用纤弱的x射线和伽马射线来引发变异。
rugby classes have kicked out of my five-year-old freddie some of that namby-pamby 「can’t i stay in and watch pop girl?」 stuff; even my daughter emilia claims to enjoy it.