shy of
试图避免某事物：指不愿意或不敢做某事
常用释义
英式发音
美式发音
基本释义
- 试图避免某事物：指不愿意或不敢做某事，尽量避免某种情况或行为。
例句
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1·The band has never been shy of publicity.这支乐队一向不惮招摇。来源: 《牛津词典》
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2·He disliked her and had never been shy of saying so.他不喜欢她，而且从来不忌讳说出来。来源: 《牛津词典》
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3·Successive governments have fought shy of such measures.一届接一届政府均不愿采取这些措施。来源: 《牛津词典》
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4·He died before Christmas, only a month shy of his 90th birthday.他在圣诞节前去世了，仅差一个月就满90岁。来源: 《牛津词典》
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5·I'm shy of three dollars.我缺三块钱。
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6·She is shy of strangers.她怕陌生人。
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7·Gasoline now costs an average of $3.15 a gallon, seven cents shy of the record set last May.汽油现在的平均价格是每加仑3.15美元，仅比去年五月的记录低了七美分。
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8·Just shy of 50, she says she'd never have wanted to do what her mother did—give up a career to raise a family.年近50的她说，她从来没有想要做母亲做过的事——放弃事业来养家糊口。
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9·He speaks French and German as well as Dutch, but he is shy of using English in public although he is fluent in it.他能说法语、德语和荷兰语，尽管他的英语说得很流利，但他却羞于在公共场合使用它。
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10·My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.我的母亲只有不到五英尺高，平时说话非常温和，但极少数生气的时候，她会表现得很可怕。