喜樂美語
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    /ˈkaʊərd/ · /ˈkaʊəd/

    Someone who is not brave at all — a person who is too afraid to do something hard, , or unpleasant that they should do.

    膽小鬼；懦夫

    複數 cowards

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Someone backing away from the thing they were supposed to face. The fear itself is ordinary — everyone has it; what the word points at is the retreat that follows, seen from the outside and judged.

有件難的、可怕的事擺在一個人面前，而他往後退開了。要注意這個字指的不是「會害怕」——害怕是人人都有的；它指的是害怕之…更多收起有件難的、可怕的事擺在一個人面前，而他往後退開了。要注意這個字指的不是「會害怕」——害怕是人人都有的；它指的是害怕之後選擇不面對的那一步，而且是別人從外面看、帶著責備下的判斷。所以 coward 幾乎不會是中性描述，它是罵人的話：說某人是 coward，等於在說他該站出來卻沒站出來。

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Cowardname

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    A surname originating as an occupation.

cowardnoun/ˈkaʊəd/

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    A person who lacks courage.

    • Near-synonyms: big baby, baby
    • Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]

cowardadj/ˈkaʊəd/

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    Cowardly.

    • It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4, He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
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    governmentheraldryhobbiesBorne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.

cowardverb/ˈkaʊəd/

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    obsoleteTo intimidate.

    • The first he coped with was their captain, whom / His sword sent headless to seek out a tomb. / This cowarded the valour of the rest, […]

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。