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 confused and timid throng left the protecting mounds of the fort, and issued on the open plain, the whole scene was at once presented to their eyes.
-- He bared his gray locks, and looked around the timid and quiet throng by which he was encircled, with a firm and collected countenance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few very timid animals were seen under the forest- trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, Quilp,' said the timid sufferer.
-- Besides that it was very difficult to impart to any person not intimately acquainted with the life she led, an adequate sense of its gloom and loneliness, a constant fear of in some way committing or injuring the old man to whom she was so tenderly attached, had restrained her, even in the midst of her heart's overflowing, and made her timid of allusion to the main cause of her anxiety and distress.
-- Mr Abel, who had a quaint old-fashioned air about him, looked nearly of the same age as his father, and bore a wonderful resemblance to him in face and figure, though wanting something of his full, round, cheerfulness, and substituting in its place a timid reserve.
-- It was not easy to determine, for she was timid and fearful of being repulsed.
-- The child bore upon her arm the little basket with her flowers, and sometimes stopped, with timid and modest looks, to offer them at some gay carriage; but alas!there were many bolder beggars there, gipsies who promised husbands, and other adepts in their trade, and although some ladies smiled gently as they shook their heads, and others cried to the gentlemen beside them 'See, what a pretty face!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she was entirely different to-day; there was something new in the expression of her face; something timid and reserved, and, as it seemed to him, malevolent toward him.
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：
-- At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice almost in a whisper.
-- She very soon came to an open field, with a wood on the other side of it: it looked much darker than the last wood, and Alice felt a little timid about going into it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- Quieter and less timid than their cousins of the north, they did not, like them, place sentinels round the outskirts of their encampment.
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：
-- she asked, softly, at length, with that gentle, timid sympathy which touched a keen fibre in his heart.
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