1·Pusillanimous managers complain that they're forced to make these cuts by short-term oriented investors.
优柔寡断的经理人往往抱怨，他们削减此类开支是因为受到目光短浅的投资者的压力。
1·It is time the Fund's top brass said so publicly and, by refusing to lend more without a deal on debt, pushed Europe's pusillanimous politicians into doing the right thing.
IMF的高层官员是时候发表公开声明，拒绝贷款给没有计划处理债务的国家来促使欧洲胆怯的政客们走正确的路、做正确的事。
2·His failure to help the old man who was being robbed was pusillanimous.
他的胆怯促使他未能援助被行抢的老人。