shy的意思|shy的解释-里氏词典

shy [ʃai]

n. 惊跳, 惊避

a. 胆怯的, 畏缩的, 迟疑的, 羞怯的

vi. 惊退, 乱投, 乱掷, 厌恶, 避开

vt. 乱投, 乱掷

shy
shied, shier, shiest, shyer, shyest

[ noun ]

a quick throw

<noun.act>

he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman

[ verb ]

start suddenly, as from fright

<verb.motion>

throw quickly

<verb.contact>

[ adj ]

lacking self-confidence

<adj.all>

stood in the doorway diffident and abashed

problems that call for bold not timid responses

a very unsure young man

short

<adj.all>

eleven is one shy of a dozen

wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things

<adj.all>

shy of strangers

Shy \Shy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shying}.] [From {Shy}, a.]
To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said
especially of horses.

Shy \Shy\, v. t.
To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone;
to shy a slipper. --T. Hughes.

Shy \Shy\, n.
1. A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

2. A side throw; a throw; a fling. --Thackeray.

If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must,
it seems, have a shy at somebody. --Punch.

Shy \Shy\ (sh[imac]), a. [Compar. {Shier} (sh[imac]"[~e]r) or
{Shyer}; superl. {Shiest} or {Shyest}.] [OE. schey, skey,
sceouh, AS. sce['o]h; akin to Dan. sky, Sw. skygg, D. schuw,
MHG. schiech, G. scheu, OHG. sciuhen to be or make timid. Cf.
{Eschew}.]
1. Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.

The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but
would come up to my very feet without starting.
--Swift.

2. Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.

What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's
nobody loves you better than I. --Arbuthnot.

The embarrassed look of shy distress
And maidenly shamefacedness. --Wordsworth.

3. Cautious; wary; suspicious.

I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the
preparation of medicines. --Boyle.

Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of
thier successors. --Sir H.
Wotton.

4. Inadequately supplied; short; lacking; as, the team is shy
two players.[Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

5. (Poker), owing money to the pot; -- in cases where an
opponent's bet has exceeded a player's available stake or
chips, but the player chooses to continue playing the hand
before adding the required bet to the pot. [Slang]
[PJC]

{To fight shy}. See under {Fight}, v. i.

Retailers have a recurring nightmare that seasonal shoppers will shy away from stores for fear of having to meet big bills later on. It almost never comes to pass; people get sentimental around the holidays and tend to over-spend.
This unpretentious, bucolic setting in central Kansas seems appropriate for Doskocil's quiet, shy founder.
Comedian Jackie Mason is not the shy type, and he is not letting a bad experience with the New York City mayor's race sour him on politicians.
Gentex's customers are Detroit's auto makers, Goliaths that don't shy from squeezing suppliers hard and casting off the ones too weak to take it.
Foreign investors will continue to shy away from Poland until they are assured of ownership, use, and transfer rights in property, it warns. The issue of property rights - and restitution - has affected the pace of privatisation.
Arriving here, the organizers estimated they were about $100,000 shy of the approximately $500,000 they figured they'd need to pay for things like hay, water and portable toilets.
An incomplete pass and a three-yard run by Tony G. left the Giants 60 yards shy of the goal with 53 seconds left.
Lack says there won't always be re-creations on Chung's show "but we're certainly not shy about them and we'll do them often." Asked how he would respond to critics of re-creations in a news program, he responded: "This program speaks for itself.
Perhaps she is at times too sharp, too shy of bringing out the melting lyricism of the ballet's more lovelorn passages; but her dancing is as naturally brilliant as birdsong.
"He was shy and he didn't talk much at first," Scott said. "But later we started talking real good.
Robert Maxwell doesn't shy from the grand gesture.
Adventurer Will Steger's long-awaited expedition across Antarctica remains $600,000 shy of its $11 million budget.
I was a bookworm and a tomboy and very shy.
Though he is the son of a former president of Italy, early exposure to the world of politics has done nothing to alter the character of a profoundly shy man.
Until yesterday, even the strike threatened for early next week in the North Sea hadn't provided any psychological strength to the market, although it is already shy of North Sea barrels.
He conceded that if Democrats appear too shy of military action it could revive the "weakness" charge effectively used against the party by former President Reagan.
Since January 1 1993, the Commission has fought shy of tabling new legislation; and high-profile European Court cases pursuing sluggish member states have been kept to a minimum.
Alas, those questioned on the point proved uncharacteristically shy. Not so, however, the man already doing what is largely the job newly offered: Tony Pender, chief executive of English Estates for the past 14 years.
He may, for populist purposes, dwell a little more on the evil ways of lobbyists and other 'naysayers' but he sees no reason to shy away from the fact that he probably knows his brief better than anyone in his government, including Mr Panetta.
The bill passed the Senate 59-36, four votes short of the needed two-thirds to override; the House approved the bill 248-150, 17 votes shy.
"It's an important milestone," allows the soft-spoken, somewhat shy Mr. Fell, whose schoolboy manner sets him apart in an industry of colorful promoters and gruff mining engineers.
The elementary school that Elvis Presley attended is cashing in on its most famous pupil, selling scraps of the maroon velveteen curtains that hung on the stage when Presley was a shy, barefoot boy singing at weekday devotionals.
One such set of terms, designed for this purpose, will shortly be published by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of the Queen Mary and Westfield College in London. There is yet another reason why one should not be shy of the convention.
Don't be too shy to bargain with an art dealer and to ask for a written description of the artwork and of the dealer's return policy.
"People say I'm shy, but I don't think so," she said. "I would say I'm just a bit timid." To the outside world, and most Egyptians, Mrs. Mubarak is a mystery.
Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens voted to hear arguments in the case, one vote shy of the four needed to grant such review.
He is small and shy, but his presence can fill a room.
But it also hasn't been shy in forging ahead with new products, even if patent-infringement issues loom.
It bid $117 a share for Northwest Airlines parent NWA Inc. this past summer, just $4 shy of investor Alfred Checchi's winning $121-a-share bid.
Independents did not shy from a woman candidate, and Democrats did not lean away from a black or a woman.

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