coward
四级,六级,考研,雅思,GRE,1
英['kaʊəd]
|美['kaʊɚd]
日语:卑怯者
法语:lâche
德语:Feigling
韩语:겁쟁이
俄语:cobarde
牛津词典
noun
- 胆小鬼;懦夫;胆怯者
a person who is not brave or who does not have the courage to do things that other people do not think are especially difficult
- You coward! What are you afraid of?
你这胆小鬼!你怕什么呢? - I'm a real coward when it comes to going to the dentist.
我一去看牙医就胆战心惊。
网络解释
n. 懦夫,懦弱的人
adj. 胆小的,懦怯的
n. (Coward)人名;(英)科沃德
词形变化
中文词源
coward 胆小鬼
来自拉丁词cauda, 尾巴,词源同coda, queue. 原指动物夹着尾巴逃走,后指人胆小。
双语例句
- He's a coward and a bully who confuses physical strength with manhood.
他是一个懦夫,一个分不清蛮力和大丈夫气概的恃强凌弱者。
- She accused her husband of being a coward.
她指责丈夫胆小懦弱。
- By attacking me, by attacking my wife, he has proved himself to be a gutless coward.
他攻击我,攻击我的妻子,这正证明他自己是个没出息的胆小鬼。
- 'You're a coward,' Mark said very plainly and soberly
马克非常直率而严肃地说:“你是个懦夫。”
- She was a rotten coward
她是一个讨厌的胆小鬼。
- I was, to my shame, a coward.
我很惭愧,我是个懦夫。
- She shot to stardom on Broadway in a Noel Coward play.
她因在百老汇出演了一部诺埃尔·科沃德的戏一炮而红。
- He must not be untruthful, or a coward
他绝不能是虚伪或胆怯之徒。
- A bully is always a coward.
暴汉常是懦夫。
- Noticing that there was likely to be trouble, the coward sneaked away.
那个胆小鬼看到有可能发生骚乱时就溜开了。
- He is a wretched coward.
他是个令人讨厌的胆小鬼。
- School has made the boy into a coward.
学校已把这孩子变成胆小鬼了。
- They goaded him into doing it by saying he was a coward.
他们说他是懦夫,以此激他做那件事。
- Am I becoming a coward?
我现在快要变成胆小鬼了吧?
- I like myself be caught because I'm not a coward!
我让自己被抓,因为我不是懦夫!
- But, at the same time, I admit that I was born a coward.
但是同时我不得不承认我是一个天生的懦夫。
- You see, I was a coward, yes a real coward.
你看,我当时是个懦夫,真的,的确是个懦夫。
- I am a man, a coward will not attack a man.
我是一个男人,懦夫是不会袭击一个男人的。
- You are a coward!
你是个懦夫。
- How's this for a coward?
这招怎么样,你这懦夫?
- I would be a coward if I left now.
如果我现在离开,就成了一个懦夫。
- "I hate that the sheriff thinks me a coward," he said, laughing.
“我讨厌被郡长认为是个懦夫。”他笑着说。
- And he's not a coward.
他不像你是个懦夫。
- No, that's me. I'm the coward, always have been.
不,那是我。我是懦夫,一直都是。
- My quitting strategy surely made me a coward and a weakling.
我的放弃策略肯定让我成了懦夫、胆小鬼。
- Hunger and weakness had made a coward of him.
饥饿和虚弱使他变成了胆小鬼。
- This man murdered my father like a coward.
这个人,卑劣地谋杀了我的父亲。
- You wronged him by calling him a coward.
你说他是胆小鬼,这是冤枉了他。
- I just never figured you for a coward.
我只是没有指出你是个胆小鬼。
- I was a coward running away, again.
我是个懦夫,我又逃跑了。
语源
Middle English: from Old French couard, based on Latin caudatail, possibly with reference to a frightened animal with its tail between its legs, reflected in sense 2 (early 16th cent.)