pusillanimous
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌpjuː.sɪˈlæn.ɪ.məs]
- 美式音标 [ˌpjuː.sɪˈlæn.ə.məs]
- 国际音标 [,pju:si'læniməs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 胆怯的；懦弱的；优柔寡断的
词根记忆
- pusill(虚弱的) + anim(生命，精神) + ous→胆小的
同根派生
- adv性质的同根词
- pusillanimously：胆怯地，怯懦地；优柔寡断地。
- n性质的同根词
- pusillanimity：胆怯；无气力；优柔寡断。
英汉例句
- Pusillanimous managers complain that they're forced to make these cuts by short-term oriented investors.
优柔寡断的经理人往往抱怨，他们削减此类开支是因为受到目光短浅的投资者的压力。 - It is time the Fund’s top brass said so publicly and, by refusing to lend more without a deal on debt, pushed Europe’s pusillanimous politicians into doing the right thing.
通过拒绝向不提供债务援助的国家借贷，该组织的最高发言人是时候公开神秘重组的重要性，迫使欧洲懦弱的政客们采取正确行动。 - It is easy to mock the finger-wagging from Susan Rice, Mr Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, about violations of international law, as the perfect example of pusillanimous liberalism.
很容易将奥巴马的联合国大使苏珊赖斯对朝鲜违背国际法的谴责嘲笑为是懦弱的自由主义的一个绝好的例子。 - Meanwhile Mr Maliki, no longer considered weak and pusillanimous, has continued to strengthen his own position.
ECONOMIST: Iraq - Shareholders might want to write their pusillanimous representatives in Congress about that.
FORBES: The Croesus Chronicles - The American press not only had a field day reporting the details but not infrequently lectured their pusillanimous British colleagues about American ideas of press freedom.
FORBES: Nobody Shouted Stop: Alleged Chinese Espionage Swept Under the Carpet
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- valiance pusillanimous 勇猛的
- Pusillanimous And Capricious 优柔寡断反复无常
- feckless poor -spirited pusillanimous 无气力的
- irresolute pusillanimous weak -headed weak-kneed weak-minded 优柔寡断的
短语
英英字典
- weak and cowardly (= not brave); frightened of taking risks
- If you say that someone is pusillanimous, you mean that they are timid or afraid.