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英式音标:['kaʊədlɪ]英式读音
美式音标:[ˈkaʊədli]美式读音
词语分类:TEM4
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概况:

adj. 怯懦的,懦弱的;胆小的

adv. 胆怯地

词义:

adj.

怯懦的;胆小的;懦弱的;

adv.

怯懦地;胆怯地;

英英释义

cowardly[ 'kauədli ]

adj.lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

"cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"

同义词:fearful

用法:

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

His cowardly behavior was laughed at by his colleagues.
他的懦弱的行为遭到了同事们的嘲笑。

The cowardly officer was disgraced for failing to do his duty.
这卑怯的官员因不尽职而被解职。

She accused the government of a cowardly surrender to big-business interests.
她指责政府畏首畏尾屈从于大企业的利益。

权威例句

Cowardly patient.

The cowardly cyborg

EUNUS: THE COWARDLY KING

Cowardly lions confound cooperation theory

Why are Marketing Academicians so Cowardly?

Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse

Malory and the cowardly Cornish knights-"The strangest races [that] dwell next door"

Cowardly lands become brave: The use and diffusion of fertilizer bean (Mucuna deeringianum) on the hillsides of Atlantic Honduras

The Rumor That “John Kerry is French,” i.e. Haughty, Foppish, Elitist, Socialist, Cowardly, and Gay

‘Cut down by some cowardly miscreants’: Plant Maiming, or the Malicious Cutting of Flora, as an Act of Protest in Eighteenth- and ...
同义词:unmanly,faint-hearted,cravenly
同根词:cowardliness,cowardice,coward
英语词源:

cowardly (adj.)

1550s, from coward + -ly (1). The adverb (late 14c.) is much older than the adjective:

Yit had I levir do what I may Than here to dye thus cowerdelye ["Le Morte d'Arthur," c. 1450]

An Old English word for "cowardly" was earg, which also meant "slothful." Related: Cowardliness.

造句:

1. Craven or cowardly.

胆小的,怯懦的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

2. Cowardly as a mouse

胆小如鼠

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语

3. Stupid and cowardly

窝里窝囊

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语

4. cowardly lies, behaviour, actions

怯懦的谎言、 行为、 举动

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

5. Despicable and cowardly.

怯懦的卑劣的和懦弱的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

6. A cowardly surrender.

一个怯懦的投降者

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. Apprehensive and cowardly

心虚胆怯

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语

8. The bourgeoisie was cowardly.

当时的中产阶级很懦怯。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. Lacking courage;cowardly.

胆怯的缺乏勇气的;怯懦的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

10. Cowardly and malicious;base.

卑怯的胆小而恶毒的;卑鄙的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

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