pusillanimity

基本解释

Polls, however, suggest the Japanese are crying out for leadership on the issue, not pusillanimity.
但民意调查表明，在这个问题上，日本国民迫切需要的是领导责任而不是优柔寡断。
Some reckon its failure to unearth masses of new information is down to a mix of mendacious reticence on the part of key witnesses and the pusillanimity of their inquisitors.
一些人承认，没能发现大量的新信息是由于关键证人的虚假的沉默和审判者的胆怯。
Joseph has brought the Holy Family to safety from the rage of Herod, but they are moving towards the pusillanimity of Pilate, the balancing pole of wickedness in the mystery plays.
约瑟夫带来了神圣家族的安全从希律王的愤怒，但他们是朝着彼拉多胆怯，对邪恶的神秘平衡杆移动次。

Her adherents like to blame this on the moral pusillanimity and irrationality of the readers.
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If, come the next election or the one after, the Tories are still spitting into the wind of constitutional change, Mr Hague's caution may seem pusillanimity.
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In fact, such pusillanimity strengthens the Communists, who some time ago abandoned calls for a return to Soviet days and become a party of extreme nationalists.
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