shy
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ʃaɪ]
- 美式音标 [ʃaɪ]
- 国际音标 [ʃai]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 害羞的;畏缩的,胆怯的
- vi. 投;畏缩;惊退;厌恶
- vt. 投;乱掷
- n. 投掷;惊跳
- n. (Shy)人名;(英)夏伊
词源解说
- 直接源自晚期古英语的sceoh,意为羞怯的。
用法辨析
- shy用作形容词的基本意思是“怕羞的,腼腆的”,既可用于指人,也可指行为,如羞怯的表情、微笑等(实际上是间接地修饰有关人的)。还可指鸟兽等“胆怯的”“易受惊的”。
- shy还可作“有戒心的,不喜欢…的”解,此时常与of连用,其后可接名词或动名词。
- shy作“缺乏的,不足的”解时主要用于美式英语,在句中一般用作表语,无比较级和最高级。用于其他词义时,则有比较级和最高级,分别为shyer, shyest。
- shy可用作不及物动词,主要用于马等受惊而畏缩不前,偶尔也可用于人,指“(因害羞而)退缩”。
- shy常用于shy away from短语中,此时通常以人作主语,意为由于羞怯或恐惧等而“躲开”或“避开”。
adj. (形容词)
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- Mary is a shy girl.
玛丽是一个害羞的女孩。 - The little girl blazed shy.
这个小女孩满脸的羞涩。 - Jack is shy with strangers and bold with people he knows well.
杰克在陌生人面前怕羞,但和熟人在一起时则无拘无束。 - He was too shy to speak to her.
他很怕羞,连话都不敢跟她说。 - The Australian lyre-bird is so shy that even bushmen rarely see one.
澳大利亚琴鸟很怯生,即使垦荒者亦难得一见。 - The little colt shied at the fence and refused to jump over it.
这匹小马驹到障碍物前会害怕,不敢跳过去。
用作形容词 (adj.)
用作定语: ~+ n.
用作表语: S+be+~
S+be+~+ prep .-phrase
S+be+too ~+to- v
S+be+~+that-clause
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
词组短语
- shy bird 易受惊的鸟
- shy girl 害羞的女孩
- shy smile 羞怯的微笑
- shy about 不敢做…的,对…害羞的
- shy about singing 不好意思唱歌
- shy of 对…有顾虑;对…畏缩;缺乏
用作形容词 (adj.)
~+名词
~+介词
英英字典
- (NERVOUS) nervous and uncomfortable with other people
- (LESS) less than
- (HORSES) (of a horse) to suddenly move sideways or backwards, especially because of fear
- (THROW) to throw something suddenly, often in a sideways movement
- A shy person is nervous and uncomfortable in the company of other people.
- shyly
- If you are shy about or shy of doing something, you are unwilling to do it because you are afraid of what might happen.
- to move suddenly, as from fear
- a sudden movement, as from fear
- to throw (something) with a sideways motion