shyer

英 [ˈʃaɪə]

美 [ˈʃaɪər]

adj.  羞怯的; 腼腆的; 怕生的; 显得腼腆的; 看着羞怯的; 怕人的; 易受惊的; 胆小的
shy的比较级

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 害羞的;腼腆的;怕生的
  Ashyperson is nervous and uncomfortable in the company of other people.
  1. She was a shy, quiet-spoken girl...
     她是个害羞、说话轻声细语的女孩。
  2. She was a shy and retiring person off-stage...
     她在现实生活中是个腼腆而且不善社交的人。
  3. He is painfully shy of women.
     他见到女人就十分害羞。
• ADJ-GRADED 犹豫的;不情愿的;害怕的;有所顾忌的
  If you areshy ofdoing something, you are unwilling to do it because you are afraid of what might happen.
  1. You should not be shy of having your say in the running of the school.
     在管理学校方面，你应该毫无顾忌地发表你的意见。
• VERB (马)惊走，惊退
  When a horseshies, it moves away suddenly, because something has frightened it.
  1. Llewelyn's stallion shied as the wind sent sparks flying.
     风一吹来，火星四溅，卢埃林的种马惊跳起来。
• 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳;一回吃亏两回学乖
  You say 'once bitten, twice shy' when you want to indicate that someone will not do something a second time because they had a bad experience the first time they did it.
• PHRASE 竭力避开;尽量避免
  If youfight shy ofsomething, you try very hard to avoid it.
  1. It is no use fighting shy of publicity and then complaining when sponsors pass us by...
     一边对做宣传避之不及，一边又抱怨赞助人与我们擦身而过，这样做是没有用的。
  2. Until now television had fought shy of covering by-elections.
     迄今为止电视台一直竭力避免报道补缺选举。
• PREP-PHRASE 未达到;欠缺;不足;不够
  A number or amount that is justshy ofanother number or amount is just under it.
  1. ...a high-school dropout rate just shy of 53%...
     几近53％的中学辍学率
  2. He died two days shy of his 95th birthday.
     他在离 95 岁寿辰仅差两天时去世了。

双语例句

• Suddenly, I felt that I was a mere intruder; I became even shyer than Madame curie.
  我突然觉得我只不过是一个不速之客；我感到比居里夫人更羞怯。
• The doctorate student concluded it could be that people who are shyer stand toward the front, where they can't see other passengers, whereas bolder people stand in the back, where they have a view of everyone else.
  这名博士生得出结论说，那些比较害羞的人会站在电梯前面，这样他们就看不到其他乘客，而胆子较大的人会站在后面，这样他们就能看到每个人。
• Her grandson is so attentive to exposition, that Rosa is shyer than ever-and prettier.
  她的孙子非常仔细地听着解说，因此露莎越发害羞&也越发漂亮了。
• Lech was the younger and shyer, Jaroslaw the brainier, the bossier and the mastermind of the Law and Justice party ( PiS in its Polish acronym) which they founded in2001.
  莱赫是弟弟，比较害羞，而雅罗斯瓦夫则更有头脑，更独断专行，是两人2001年组建的法律与公正党（波兰语首字母缩写为PiS）的幕后操作者。