shy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 怕羞的， 腼腆的； 胆怯的vi. 惊退， 畏缩，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girl seemed too shy to utter a word at first, but Lady Helena quickly relieved her embarrassment by saying, with an encouraging smile: "You wish to speak to me, I think?"
-- Below, on the bosom of the water, were a couple of shy and unapproachable black swans.
-- Toline accepted them with a shy grace that was very charming.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest of the guests (an old tutor or schoolmaster, good-ness knows why invited; a young man, very timid, and shy and silent; a rather loud woman of about forty, apparent-ly an actress; and a very pretty, well-dressed German lady who hardly said a word all the evening) not only had no gift for enlivening the proceedings, but hardly knew what to say for themselves when addressed.
-- The prince felt as very shy people often do in such a case; he was so ashamed of the conduct of other people, so humiliated for his guests, that he dared not look them in the face.
-- She seemed very shy over it, and her sickly face flushed up with confusion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a sweep of some half-mile between the lodge and the house, and he was riding along at a foot pace over the smooth gravel, once Nickits's, when Mr. Bounderby burst out of the shrubbery, with such violence as to make his horse shy across the road.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was at his ease in the narrow 'great world', that is, landed aristocracy society, but he was shy and ner-vous of all that other big world which consists of the vast hordes of the middle and lower classes, and foreigners.
-- But Clifford was really extremely shy and self-conscious now he was lamed.
-- 'They aren't, of course,' chimed in Berry, a brown, shy young man, who had called to see Dukes, and was staying the night.
-- After a silence the shy fist, clenching on sixpence, point-ed into the bramble brake.
-- Now she was here she felt a little shy of the man, with his curious far-seeing eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her.
-- It was rather to be remarked of the caged birds, that they were a little shy of the bird about to be so grandly free, and that they had a tendency to withdraw themselves towards the bars, and seem a little fluttered as he passed.
-- As to Mr Merdle, he was so much wanted by the men in the City and the rest of those places, and was such a doosed extraordinary phenomenon in Buying and Banking and that, that Mr Sparkler doubted if the monetary system of the country would be able to spare him; though that his work was occasionally one too many for him, and that he would be all the better for a temporary shy at an entirely new scene and climate, Mr Sparkler did not conceal.
-- The whole population were shy of him on these various counts of indictment, but especially the last, which involved a species of domestic treason; and he soon became so confirmed in his seclusion, that his only time for walking up and down was when the evening Club were assembled at their songs and toasts and sentiments, and when the yard was nearly left to the women and children.
-- Bleeding Heart Yard was shy of claiming that acquaintance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smoothhaired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a ;peaceful expression which was seldom disturbed.
-- There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
-- To Jo alone did the shy child tell her thoughts, and over her big harum-scarum sister Beth unconsciously exercised more influence than anyone in the family.
-- If the Laurences had been what Jo called 'prim and poky', she would not have got on at all, for such people always made her shy and awkward.
-- The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What made you so shy of me, when you first called, and afterwards dined here?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
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