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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly there rose by the hundred roebucks and guanacos, like those that had swept over them that terrible night on the Cordilleras, but the timid creatures were so frightened that they were all out of gunshot in a twinkling.
-- A timid rabbit happened to run across their path, and the superstitious men looked at each other in dismay.
-- "Just because Captain Baudin, who was by no means a timid man, was so afraid in 1802, of the croaking of the Australian frogs, that he raised his anchor with all possible speed, and quitted the coast, never to return."
-- It is not a matter of timid or brutish Australians, but of an intelligent and sanguinary race, cannibals greedy of human flesh, man-eaters to whom we should look in vain for pity."
-- They were huge ostriches, timid too, for they fled with extreme rapidity.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had contemplated Aglaya until now, with a pleasant though rather timid smile, but as the last words fell from his lips he began to laugh, and looked at her merrily.
-- asked the timid and silent young man.
-- The prince rose and began to speak in a trembling, timid tone, but with the air of a man absolutely sure of the truth of his words.
-- Other houses were governed by a timid routine; theirs was somehow different.
-- But the prince's timid gesture had impressed even Hippolyte.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke he drew the keen blade that hung so great and strong by his side, and gathering himself together be sprang on Achilles like a soaring eagle which swoops down from the clouds on to some lamb or timid hare even so did Hector brandish his sword and spring upon Achilles.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances of the wil-derness, the blood of the timid curdled with terror, and mothers cast anxious glances even at those children which slumbered within the security of the largest towns.
-- Cora set the example of compliance, with a steadiness that taught the more timid Alice the necessity of obedience.
-- He had parted from them worn with care, and jaded with fatigue; he now saw them refreshed and bloom-ing, though timid and anxious.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest snakes sportively festooning their limbs.
-- Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held.
-- For, though himself and boat's crew remained untainted, and though his ship was half a rifle-shot off, and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and flowing between; yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine of the land, he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with the Pequod.
-- How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One timid look around--one moment's pause of hesitation--he had closed it behind him, and was in the open street.
-- Oliver looked at Sikes, in mute and timid wonder; and drawing a stool to the fire, sat with his aching head upon his hands, scarecely knowing where he was, or what was passing around him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Into this important commercial region the timid Carrie went.
-- Naturally timid in all things that related to her own advancement, and especially so when without power or resource, her craving for pleasure was so strong that it was the one stay of her nature.
-- She saw no place which did not hold a couple or a group of girls, and being too timid to think of intruding herself, she sought out her machine and, seated upon her stool, opened her lunch on her lap.
-- Timid as Carrie was, she was strong in capability.
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