milquetoast

英式音标：['mɪlktəʊst]

美式音标：['mɪlkˌtoʊst]

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概况：

n. 意志薄弱的人；胆小者

词义：

n.

胆小者，意志薄弱的人；

英英释义

milquetoast[ 'milktəust ]

n.a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive

同义词：sissypantywaistpansymilksop

用法：

权威例句

Mill and milquetoast

In defence of the Milquetoast phenotype.

Democracy in a Dim Light: Milquetoast Local Newspapers, Votes for Only Looking the Part, and Online News Cycles

The Milquetoast Manifesto

Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Mill and Milquetoast

Milquetoast and cereal

John Wayne versus Caspar Milquetoast

No More Milquetoast Milky way - is There a Quasar in Our Future

Women's Rhetoric in "New Yorker"Cartoons: Patterns for a Mildred Milquetoast.

Masterly Milquetoast

英语词源：

milquetoast (n.)

"timid, meek person," 1938, from Caspar Milquetoast, character created by U.S. newspaper cartoonist H.T. Webster (1885-1952) in the strip "The Timid Soul," which ran from 1924 in the "New York World" and later the "Herald Tribune." By 1930 the name was being referenced as a type of the meek man. The form seems to be milktoast with an added French twist; also see milksop.

造句：

1. Psychology is diseased person, milquetoast careful with!

心理不健全者，胆小者慎用！

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2. Nurtured and reshaped a little, however, that milquetoast quality becomes that tenderness that you, as a man, sorely need.

通过一些训练和改造，那些懦弱的特性会变成你这样的男人分厂需要的亲切温和的特质。

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3. You think you've poked fun at a milquetoast academic. Well, you've forgotten one thing: I am also a son of the Lone Star state.

你们以为你们吓倒了我这个胆小学者，但是别忘了我也是孤星州（德州别称）之子。

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4. You don't get those kinds of results by being a milquetoast, and Sokol — as driven an executive as I've met — rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

这样的成就绝难出自一位意志薄弱者，而索科尔——正如我所见，一个充满动力的高管——曾激怒了很多人。

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5. Voltaire, he insists, was a milquetoast careerist, too concerned with his own reputation and his comfortable life to say anything truly unsettling.

作者坚持认为，伏尔泰是个胆小如鼠的势利小人，他过于追求自己的名誉和舒适的生活，因此不会说出任何令人不安的真相。

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6. But there's something disturbing about the way it flattens everything it describes, how it embodies milquetoast consensus, and the nature of its "objective" language.

但是，有些因素在影响它将描述的东西大众化，它如何嵌入那些不成熟的共识和其客观评论的特性。

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7. But there's something disturbing about the way it flattens everything it describes, how it embodies milquetoast consensus, and the nature of its "objective" language.

但是，有些因素在影响它将描述的东西大众化，它如何嵌入那些不成熟的共识和其客观评论的特性。

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