英语释义

• in a sheepish manner;

  "sheepishly he handed her back the money"

片语

laugh sheepishly羞怯地笑

prepare sheepishly胆怯地準备

coylyad 羞怯地；害羞地

grin sheepishly腼腆地露齿而笑

get sheepishly害羞地来

answer sheepishly胆怯地回答

nod sheepishly胆怯地点头

timidlyad 羞怯地；胆小地

inject sheepishly胆怯地注入

sheepishly slithered怯懦地

scream sheepishly胆怯地发出尖叫声

英汉例句

• mr. st-pierre smiled sheepishly as ms. spencer recounted the story.

  圣皮埃尔听到斯宾塞女士讲这些的时候也羞涩地笑了笑。

• as officials sheepishly acknowledged, tokyo is acting unilaterally – not a good thing when grappling with the ever-growing currency market.

  日本官员羞于承认的是，东京方面正在采取单边行动——在我们全力应对日益壮大的外汇市场之际，这算不上是件好事。

• 「the man and his girlfriend climbed down from the bridge and said sheepishly they had just wanted to watch the sun come up, 」 police spokesman franz winkler said.

  当地警方发言人弗朗兹·温克勒说：「这个男人和他的女朋友从桥上爬了下来，并且不好意思地表示，他们其实只不过是想在桥上看看日出而已。」

• the public, for their part, might admit sheepishly to a drop in interest if, for instance, brazil were to lose their unique record of perfect attendance at the finals since the first in 1930.

  对于公众来说，巴西队从1930年首届比赛起便从未缺席过世界杯，令诸强望尘莫及，但倘若桑巴军团折戟外围赛，怕是他们也会「娇憨」地承认，这届杯赛的关注度要不如从前了吧。

• and, i sheepishly admit to a bit of browsing fear: i always seem tohave plenty to read, from journal articles to the biblioblogosphere tothe three work-related books sitting on my desk right now.

  而且我还要不好意思的承认，我有一点害怕浏览，因为我总是有很多书要读，不管是期刊文章，还是图书馆界的博客，或者是现在摆在我桌子上的三本和工作有关的书。

• 「i also wanted to make certain,」 she sheepishly confessed, "that you「re still alive.

  「我还想确定，」她怯怯地坦白道：「您是否还健在。

• i instantly recognized the spirited woman on the sidewalk, as she sheepishly smiled behind thick-rimmed glasses.

  当她在厚厚的有框眼镜后面露出笑容时，我立刻认出了路边那个精神的女人。

• “not really, 」 i sheepishly finish, deciding honesty is the best policy.

  「没有觉得，」我羞怯地说道，毕竟我认为诚实是最好的。

• mao is too intimately linked with the party」s identity to allow any further examination of the 「mistakes」 the party sheepishly admitted he made, five years after his death in 1976.

  毛与cpc的身份是紧密连在一起的，容不得对毛1976年死后5年党小心翼翼承认他犯有的「错误」进行任何进一步的检查。

• the governor of new jersey, jon corzine, left hospital on april 30th after being critically injured in a crash 18 days earlier (he has sheepishly admitted to not wearing a seatbelt).

  4月30日，新泽西州长乔恩?戈尔沁（joncorzine）出院，18天前他在一次撞车事故中受了重伤。 （他已经很不好意思地承认了自己没有系安全带。）

• he was, as he sheepishly puts it, 「in the vicinity」 when stockmarkets tumbled in 1987 and long-term capital management (ltcm), a hedge fund, disappeared down the plughole a decade later.

  就像他局促不安地指出的那样，1987年股市崩盘和十年后长期资本管理公司――一个对沖基金陨落时他就在附近。

• the officer sheepishly postponed the announcement of his defection temporarily.

  军官羞怯地要求延迟公布他关于投诚的临时声明。

• they sheepishly nodded yes.

  他们默默点头肯定。

• with so many people and vehicles thronging the roads, cambodia’s informal protocol for traffic—small gives way sheepishly to large—collapses into anarchy.

  柬埔寨不成文的交通规矩是人要谦卑地为车辆让路，在如此多的人车拥堵在街道上，规范只有被践踏成为混乱无序。

• as i sheepishly made the u-turn, he said, you’re going to give rhodes scholars a bad name.

  这时他说：“你会破坏罗兹学者的名声。

相似词

backward向后的；倒退的；（人）智力迟钝的；落后的；（场地位置）线后的

bashful(Bashful)人名；(英)巴什富尔

coy腼腆的；忸怩作态的；怕羞的

demure(Demure)人名；(法)德米尔

diffident羞怯的；缺乏自信的；谦虚谨慎的

introverted使...内向（introvert的过去分词形式）；使内翻

modest(Modest)人名；(罗)莫代斯特；(德)莫德斯特；(俄)莫杰斯特

recessive隐性性状

retiring退休；退职；退役；就寝；退庭（retire 的现在分词）

self-effacing谦让的；谦逊的；不出风头的

shy投；畏缩；惊退；厌恶

withdrawn沉默寡言的；与世隔绝的

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immodest不谦虚的；不庄重的

outgoing对人友好的，开朗的；出发的，外出的；即将离职的；乐于助人的