timid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 胆怯的， 怯懦的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor would it have been an expectation of a hopeful kind, since a small part of his income was derived from the pilotage of timid women (mostly of a full habit and past the middle term of life) from Tellson's side of the tides to the opposite shore.
-- After 230 A tale of two citiestaking a timid peep at him lying on his back, with his rusty hands under his head for a pillow, his son lay down too, and fell asleep again.
-- Awakened by a timid local functionary and three armed patriots in rough red caps and with pipes in their mouths, who sat down on the bed.
-- 'It is as the good patriot says,' observed the timid func-tionary.
-- He carried the child over, and before, the timid arm was loosed from his neck asked her for a kiss.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said in a subdued and timid voice.
-- "Rhine wine, please," said the young officer, stealing a timid glance at Vronsky, and trying to pull his scarcely visible mustache.
-- If Alexey Alexandrovitch had allowed himself to observe he would have noticed the timid and bewildered eyes with which Seryozha glanced first at his father and then at his mother.
-- "Yes, it's very wrong," said Anna, and taking her son by the shoulder she looked at him, not severely, but with a timid glance that bewildered and delighted the boy, and she kissed him.
-- "But our relations cannot be the same as always," Anna began in a timid voice, looking at him with dismay.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin saw that, unless he struggled, not only would he harden into timid morality under the pressure of the village, but be fixed in a routine of prescriptions and bandaging.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With sad and timid eyes he looked for her; she returned and stood by his pillow.
-- Pulcheria Alexandrovna was emotional, but not sentimental, timid and yielding, but only to a certain point.
-- Pulcheria Alexandrovna was indeed growing more timid the longer she kept silent.
-- Sonia, timid by nature, had felt before that day that she could be ill- treated 566 Crime and Punishmentmore easily than anyone, and that she could be wronged with impunity.
-- Polenka was in her everyday dress; she looked in timid perplexity at her mother, and kept at her side, hiding her tears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and verylow in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and despondingheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who wasalready welcomed by some grosses of prophetic pins in a drawerupstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival;my mother, I say, was sitting by the fire, that bright, windy Marchafternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever comingalive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her eyes asshe dried them, to the window opposite, she saw a strange ladycoming up the garden.
-- In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that shefelt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand;but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sittingwith the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on oneknee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
-- I was almost tempted that evening to tell Steerforth about prettylittle Em'ly, but I was too timid of mentioning her name, and toomuch afraid of his laughing at me.
-- My timid stationon his threshold was not occupied more than a couple of minutesat most; but I came down again with all this in my knowledge, assurely as the knife and fork were in my hand.
-- But, as most of themhad, hanging up among their stock, an officer's coat or two,epaulettes and all, I was rendered timid by the costly nature oftheir dealings, and walked about for a long time without offeringmy merchandise to any one.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is very timid and silent.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
-- RECOGNITION A TIMID GIRLBathsheba withdrew into the shade.
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