cowardice的意思|cowardice的解释-里氏词典

cowardice ['kauәdis]

n. 懦弱

His cowardice in face of the enemy was contemptible.
他在敌人面前胆小如鼠，真是可鄙。
German writer whose novellas and dramas, including The Broken Pitcher(1811), concern characters torn between reason and emotion and between heroism and cowardice.
克莱斯特，亨利希·冯1777－1811德国作家，他的中篇小说和戏剧包括破瓮记（1811年），其中涉及了人物在理智和情感、英雄主义和懦弱之间的折磨
Such an act of cowardice by an officer shames his whole regiment.
一个军官作出如此胆怯的行为使整个团都蒙受羞辱。

cowardice

[ noun ]
the trait of lacking courage
<noun.attribute>

Cowardice \Cow"ard*ice\ (-[i^]s), n. [F. couardise, fr. couard.
See {Coward}.]
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity;
pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

The cowardice of doing wrong. --Milton.

Moderation was despised as cowardice. --Macaulay.

Republican McCain denounced the delay as political cowardice.
In Washington, the human rights group Asia Watch today asked President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to condemn the executions by firing squad, which it called "an act of cowardice." Brig. Gen.
Group courage masking individual cowardice," he said.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist said dissenting colleagues had accused his 5-4 majority of cowardice and illegitimacy.
Niamh Cusack seizes her big speech on cowardice while the abashed men stand like sentries on the four corners of the stage awaiting the arrival of the inevitable catafalque. Life goes on, says O'Casey.
Rather, a continuing string of excessive deficits has resulted from political cowardice _ an unwillingness to either raise taxes to cover expenditures or cut spending to stay within revenues. Those are the only two ways to balance a federal budget.

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