He might have behaved timidly in life; in the book he would be bold as a lion.
在生活中他可能是个胆小怕事的人, 但在书中他却会被写成像狮子一样勇猛.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because It'seems so.
胆小怕事,优柔寡断的人,会觉得什么事看来都不可能做好.
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He had been fooled , faked out, by the Five Families and their seeming timidity.
他受骗了,上当了, 被五大家族胆小怕事的外表迷住了心窍.
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Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves.
因爲他们本身就非常容易招来责难, 所以他们胆小怕事.
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The natural suspicions and fears the peasants themselves also the peasant to go slow.
同时,农民本身疑虑重重以及胆小怕事的通病,也使得他们行动起来十分缓慢.
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He was a nice doctor, but a weak man who wasn't going to stick his neck out...
他是位为人和蔼的医生,但胆小怕事,不敢冒什么风险。
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He's such a nebbish that he can't even make a decision on what to eat for dinner.
他是一个非常胆小怕事的人,连决定晚餐吃什么都做不出来。
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It's hard to believe that he was such a nebbish in college, he's now a successful businessman.
很难相信他在大学里是个这么胆小怕事的人,现在已经是一个成功的商人了。
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She was tired of dating nebbishes, so she decided to look for someone with more confidence.
她厌倦了和胆小怕事的人约会,因此决定寻找一个更有自信的人。
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