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英式音标:[ˈkaʊədɪs]英式读音
美式音标:[ˈkaʊərdɪs]美式读音
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概况:

n. 怯懦;胆小

词义:

n.

懦弱,胆怯;

英英释义

cowardice[ 'kauədis ]

n.the trait of lacking courage

同义词:cowardliness

用法:

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

I've been accused of many things in my life, but never of cowardice.
我一生中受过种种指责,但从来没有人说我怯懦。

He lost everything because of his cowardice.
他因为怯懦而失去了一切。

He was disgusted at your cowardice.
他讨厌你的懦弱。

Such an act of cowardice by an officer shames his whole regiment.
一个军官作出如此胆怯的行为使整个团都蒙受羞辱。

His cowardice in face of the enemy was contemptible.
他在敌人面前胆小如鼠,真是可鄙。

权威例句

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同义词:poltroonery
同根词:cowardly
英语词源:

cowardice (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French coardise (13c.), from coard, coart (see coward) + noun suffix -ise.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. [Ernest Hemingway, "Men at War," 1942]

造句:

1. The smell of cowardice is too strong here.

这儿胆小鬼的臭气太重了。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. He threw out hints of cowardice.

他转弯抹角地说,这跟怯懦是分不开的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. They taunted him with cowardice/with being a coward.

他们讥笑他胆怯[是胆小鬼].

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. Such terror of the unseen is so far above mere sensual cowardice that it will annihilate that cowardice.

正因为这种对看不见的事物的害怕,远胜过了仅仅肉体上的怯懦,因而它反会消灭这种怯懦。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. They dignified cowardice by calling it prudence.

他们把怯懦美其名曰为谨慎。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. I infested public meetings like an officer afflicted with cowardice.

我就象一个胆怯的军官经常参加公众聚会。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. He never knows what cowardice is.

他从不知什么叫胆怯。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. His cowardice made him a byword to all who knew him.

由于他的懦弱,他在认识他的人中已被当作笑料。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. His mood of cowardice had passed away.

他的懦怯情绪化为乌有了。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

10. I have many vices, but cowardice, or want of gratitude, are none of the number.

我诚然有许多坏处,可决不怯懦,决不忘恩负义。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

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