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Sheepishly tells you how someone does something: in a slightly uncomfortable, way, because they know they have been silly or wrong. It is the adverb that belongs with . Someone grins sheepishly, admits sheepishly, looks sheepishly at the floor. The feeling is still mild — a little guilty, a little shy — not tragic. You hear it in stories and in ordinary talk when a writer or speaker wants you to see the face and the tone, not only the fact. Though actually, dropping the -ly and saying “he smiled ” is a common slip; English wants sheepishly there.
不好意思地；靦腆地；心虛地。
原始詞典資料1 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。
sheepishlyadv/ˈʃiː.pɪʃ.li/
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In a sheepish way; shyly; meekly; bashfully; self-consciously; with embarrassment.
- But Frank Fairbanks, a retired public administrator, had to sheepishly acknowledge that he had grass. “Unfortunately, like many of our central Phoenix neighbors, we have a green lawn which consumes more water than xeriscape,” he told the paper.
- Renton’s big mistake is sheepishly to offer Sick Boy his stolen share 20 years on: £4,000 in a crumpled brown envelope. “What am I supposed to buy with that?” rages Sick Boy bitterly later. “A time machine?”
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。