His ignoble resource, alas! is to attack a dull and timorous bird, the noddy, famous as a fisher.

唉，可叹啊，军舰鸟那不光彩一面就是去攻击一只迟钝又胆小鸟——以“渔夫”之名著称燕鸥。

" Doesn't it interest you" ? asked Mrs. Penniman, with a certain timorous archness.

“你不感兴趣吗”？彭尼曼夫人问，带着某种胆怯顽皮。

" Oh, that'll be all right, " said Philip, smiling at his timorous, scrupulous women-kind.

“哦，那没关系，” 菲利普说，对他那胆小、小心谨慎女人微笑。

I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.

我怀着胆怯喜悦看着一座庄严房子：我看到了一片焦黑废墟。

These two: " timid" and " timorous" , that's usually somebody who is always like that.

这两个：“timid” 和“timorous” ，通常是那种总是这样人。

And " timorous" is the adjective. Okay? Oh, more extreme again: " terrified" . If you're really, really frightened, absolutely terrified.

而“胆怯” 是形容词。 好？ 哦，又极端了：“吓坏了” 。如果你真， 真害怕，绝对害怕。

He then becomes a hypocrite, timorous and demure; he counsels " peace of soul, " hate-no-more, leniency, " love" of friend and foe.

然后他变成了一个伪君子， 胆小而端庄。 他建议“灵魂和平” 、不再仇恨、宽大、友敌之间“” 。

'Did she not love you enough'? He drew his breath in a slow and attenuated stream, as he waited in timorous hope for the answer.

“她不够你吗”？当他怀着胆怯希望等待答案时，他缓慢而微弱地吸了一口气。

Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.

他们结为夫妻打算， 起初犹豫不决， 胆小怕事，随着时间流逝， 势头越来越大， 直到现在克服了过程中每一个障碍。

" I have not, " replied M. d'Anquetil, " those scruples which intimidate the crowd of ordinary men, and which I consider good only to stop the timorous and restrain the wretched" .

“我没有，”德安克蒂尔先生回答说，“那些恐吓普通人顾忌，我认为这只是为了阻止胆小者和约束可怜者。”

Finding nobody there, I past on to the next; But I must own, I was a little timorous at going in, for this was the very room where Donna Elvira used to sleep.

在那里找不到人，我继续下一个；但我必须承认，我进去时有点胆怯，因为这正是唐娜·埃尔维拉 (Donna Elvira) 曾经睡觉房间。

I want you to fix an hour, because I am weak, and may otherwise try to get out of it'. She added a little artificial laugh, which showed how timorous her resolution was still.

我要你固定一个小时， 因为我很虚弱， 否则可能会试图摆脱它。 她假装笑了笑， 这表明她决心是多么胆怯。

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

毫无疑问，一些古希腊人已经观察到，在大面具和喇叭后面，一定总是有我们可怜小像往常一样窥视着，而我们胆怯嘴唇或多或少地在焦急地控制着。

But in another moment she seemed to have descended from her womanly eminence to helpless and timorous girlhood;and he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself.

但转之间， 她似乎从女性显赫地位堕落为无助而胆怯少女时代； 他明白她勇气和主动性都是为了别人，而她自己却没有。

On reaching the place and going upstairs she found that all was quiet in the children's room, and called to the landlady in timorous tones to please bring up the tea-kettle and something for their breakfast.

到了那个地方上楼，她发现孩子们房间里很安静，就用胆怯语气叫女房东，请把茶壶和早餐东西拿来。