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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know how absurdly shy she is.
-- Kostia was too shy to come in, because he was carrying a hatchet; they had bought the hedgehog and the hatchet from a peasant whom they had met on the road.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and aproned gipsies began running towards the inn, and in a miraculously short space of time a crowd of perhaps forty people, and rapidly increasing, swayed and hooted and inquired and exclaimed and suggested, in front of Mrs. Hall's establishment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little pink sloth-thing became shy and left me, to crawl back to its natural life once more among the tree-branches.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think in those days we were a little shy of our emotions, and the fear of ridicule tempered the more obvious forms of pretentiousness.
-- Everyone seemed to be talking, and I, sitting in silence, felt awkward; but I was too shy to break into any of the groups that seemed absorbed in their own affairs.
-- I felt so shy that I could think of nothing to say, but Mrs. Strickland came to my rescue.
-- Too shy to express my sympathy, I turned to say good-bye to the Colonel.
-- But the fear of not being able to carry it through effectively has always made me shy of assuming the moral attitude; and in this case the certainty that my sentiments would be lost on Strickland made it peculiarly embarrassing to utter them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may, at first sight, be matter of surprise to the thoughtless few that Mr Brass, being a professional gentleman, should not have legally indicted some party or parties, active in the promotion of the nuisance, but they will be good enough to remember, that as Doctors seldom take their own prescriptions, and Divines do not always practise what they preach, so lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving, than for its always shaving the right person.
-- Kit, being rather shy of his friend, made a suitable reply, and had his hand upon the lock of the street door when Mr Brass called him softly back.
-- In as little time as it takes to tell it, the small servant had the address in pencil on a piece of paper; a verbal description of father and son, which would enable her to recognise either, without difficulty; and a special caution to be shy of Mr Chuckster, in consequence of that gentleman's known antipathy to Kit.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other men were Blank, the Editor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another a quiet, shy man with a beard whom I didn't know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.
-- We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative, and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Something like cottages with the roofs taken off, and stalks put to them and what quantities of honey they must make!I think I'll go down and no, I won't just yet,' she went on, checking herself just as she was beginning to run down the hill, and trying to find some excuse for turning shy so suddenly.
-- It was so large that she couldn't help feeling a little shy with it, as she had been with the mutton; however, she conquered her shyness by a great effort and cut a slice and handed it to the Red Queen.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men are not shy with him, and Jim is a noticing lad."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked at the shy deer, and Hermione talked to the stag, as if he too were a boy she wanted to wheedle and fondle.
-- Some of the daisies came slowly towards her, hesitating, making a shy bright little cotillion on the dark clear water.
-- He seemed to fight shy of the last word.
-- And the more she looked, the more she longed to have a bunch of the blossoms she saw, the more fascinated she became with her little vision of ceremony, and the more consumedly shy and self-conscious she grew, till she was almost beside herself.
-- Gudrun only looked into his face with dark-blue, warm, shy eyes.
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