片语

out of由于；缺乏；自…离开；用…（材料）

be shy of畏缩；羞于…

Shy of the balloon害羞的气球

be shy of asking不敢问

shy of trying again不敢再试

fail失败，不及格；破产；缺乏；衰退

shy of escape害羞的逃避

be shy of strangers见生人有点腼腆

Shy of the meet羞涩的相遇

shy of speaking不敢多讲话

shy of funds资金不足

英汉例句

• in october, fred, 102, and gwen, 101, celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary, and they are not far shy of a record.

  去年10月，102岁的佛瑞德和101岁的温格庆祝了他们结婚77年纪念日，未来有可能打破结婚时间最长的世界纪录。

• we should never feel shy of accepting responsibilities of outcomes from our actions.

  我们永远不要感到接受自己行动带来的责任而感到害羞。

• the head of china’s icbc, the world’s biggest bank by market value, received just under $134, 000 in 2009, a couple of decimal places shy of his western counterparts.

  中国工商银行按市值算是世界上最大的银行，它的总经理2009年的年薪不到13万美元，比他的西方同行要少两位数。

• apple, according to kumar’s estimates, should end the june 2010 quarter having sold about eight million phones, shy of his nine million device estimate, thanks to supply constraints.

  根据kumar的估计，苹果公司在2010年第二季度卖出了800台iphone，由于供货商的问题，900万台的目标恐难达到。

• just shy of a half hour later, my mother and i stopped at the mississippi welcome center by the bridge.

  只在不到半个小时的时间后，母亲和我停在了位于桥边的密西西比州接待中心。

• but the latest figure is still well shy of the $9 billion plan outlined last year, confirming the view of some analysts that 2008 will stand as a peak for capital spending in years to come.

  不过即使是调整后的数字也远远不及去年计划的90亿美元，进而印证了一些分析师的观点：2008年将是今后数年中资本支出的高峰之年。

• then 22 and only a semester shy of graduation, he contacted the american colleges that had accepted him to graduate school.

  那时候只有22岁还有一学期就毕业的他联系了已经接受了他做研究生的美国大学。

• he speaks french and german as well as dutch: he is shy of using english in public although he is fluent in it, say aides.

  助手说，虽然范佩龙能说法语、德语和荷兰语，虽然他的英语很流利，但他却羞于在公共场合使用它。

• tonight there are just shy of 5, 000 wandwavers.

  今晚只有不足5,000的挥棒者。

• those who wanted to speed my political recovery after the crushing midterm defeat thought i was nuts, or, as we say in arkansas, three bricks shy of a full load.

  那些在中期选举惨败后想加快恢复我的政治影响力的人认为我疯了，或者就像我们阿肯色州人说的那样，「三个好汉无法抬起一满车东西」。

• personally, i felt nervous about trying to conceive after 35 and wound up having my son just three weeks shy of that milestone.

  就我个人来讲，我很担心自己在35岁过后才尝试怀孕，所以在离这个时刻还有三个星期的时候就怀上了我的儿子。

• the vote ended up eight shy of the 316 needed to show that he had a majority in the italian parliament.

  最终的投票结果是贝卢斯科尼获得了308票，距离能证明其拥有意大利国会绝对多数支持的316票低了8票。

• infrastructure investment, now shy of 2% of gdp, should be at least 3%. to match south korea「s infrastructure brazil would have to treble that, according to the world bank.

  世界银行认为基础设施投资至少要达到3%，而不是现在的不足2%，要达到韩国的水平还要再增加到现在的3倍。

• the snappily titled sdt750 can film in 3d using a dedicated dual lens, pumping out pics in a quality just shy of hd.

  型号为sdt750的摄像机可以使用专用的3d双镜头，提取高质量高清照片。

• running on solar power gathered from its rooftop supplemented with grid energy, the 「fast bus」 is expected to top out just shy of 40 miles per hour, so it」s not ideal for long treks.

  通过电能和顶部太阳能装置收集的太阳能共同驱动，这种巴士最快能达到40公里每小时的速度，因此它不适合用作长线行驶。

• after some experience in theater, he landed a role in a soap opera and dropped out of high school just shy of graduation.

  在取得一些舞台剧演出经验之后，他获得一个肥皂剧的角色，于是没有等到高中毕业就辍学了。

• so 3 days shy of her first birthday, i quit my job, we sold our house and started on our new path.

  所以，在她第一个生日的3天前，我辞去了工作，我们卖掉了房子，开始了我们新的生活。

• we asked family and friends for help, and we arranged to take on extra work. the next day, we called to make a new offer, slightly higher than our first one, still shy of the owner's counter price.

  同时,我们想办法计划如何筹备超出预算的那部份.我们向家人和朋友求助,我们安排额外的工作, 就这样在第二天,我们还了一个新价,稍微高过上一次的还价, 但仍然与业主的要价有一段距离.

• a few months shy of her 12th birthday, margaret simon is starting school in a new town and asking god some serious questions.

  未满十二岁的珍珠小姐已经开始了在陌生市镇的求学之旅，她现在正在问上帝一些异常严肃的问题。

• a survey for the new york times has just reported that the median pay for top executives at 200 big companies last year was little shy of $11m a year—a mouth-watering 23% rise since 2009.

  纽约时报的一份调查显示，去年，200家大公司的首席执行官的年薪平均为将近1100万美元——自2009年以来，达到令人羡慕的23%的年增长率。

• unemployment is stuck at 9.5%, even though corporate america is flush with cash.companies are still unhelpfully shy of hiring, preferring to squeeze yet more output from fewer people.

  当月美国失业率仍然高居9.5%，即使美国企业并不缺钱，各大公司依然倾向于从更少的员工中「盘剥」出更多的产出，对解决就业这一难题并无有效的对策。

• apple’s most recent full-year revenue was $36.5bn, close to double the level of three years before but shy of microsoft’s $58bn.

  苹果公司最近宣布的全年收入为365亿美元，接近3年前的两倍，然而在微软580亿美元的收入面前还略显羞涩。

• i concluded that they were simply shy of strangers.

  我认为这不过是他们在陌生人面前表现出的害羞。

• they found that on average, each taxonomist describes just shy of 25 new species during his or her career, at a cost of $97, 000 a year.

  他们发现，每位分类学家在自己整个工作生涯中，平均才描述25种新物种，而每年的研究经费却高达97,000美元。