喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of someone who wants to step forward but hangs back — near the door of a room full of strangers, not , just not able to close the last few steps. The pull away from contact comes first; everything else the word does is that same pulling-back, applied to animals, to actions, even to numbers that stop just short.

可以想成一個人站在門口，房間裡都是不認識的人：他不是不想進去，是最後那幾步跨不出去，眼神先低下來、話先卡在喉嚨。這個…更多收起可以想成一個人站在門口，房間裡都是不認識的人：他不是不想進去，是最後那幾步跨不出去，眼神先低下來、話先卡在喉嚨。這個「往後縮一點、不敢靠上去」的動作可以看成 shy 的底圖——後面不管是動物怕生、不願意做某件事，還是數字差那麼一點沒到，都像是同一個往後縮的動作換了對象。

原始詞典資料18 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。

Shyname

  • 1

    A surname.

shyadj/ʃaɪ/

  • 1

    Easily frightened; timid.

    • The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.
  • 2

    Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.

    • He is very shy with strangers.
    • VVhat makes you ſo ſhy of late, my good Friend? There's no Body loves you better than I, nor has taken more Pains in your Affairs: […]
  • 3

    Cautious; wary; suspicious.

    • We grant, although he had much wit, / H' was very shy of using it; / As being loth to wear it out, / And therefore bore it not about,
    • Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
  • 4

    informalShort, insufficient or less than.

    • By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
    • It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
  • 5

    governmentpoliticsLess likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.

    • Pollsters need to remember the shy Tory factor.

shyverb/ʃaɪ/

  • 1

    To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.

    • Courts might tend to shy from limiting Congress under such a vague standard.
  • 2

    To jump back in fear.

    • The horse shied at the unexpected approach of a motor vehicle.
  • 3

    To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.

    • to shy a stone
    • shy a slipper
  • 4

    To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.

  • 5

    To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.

shynoun/ʃaɪ/

  • 1

    An act of throwing.

    • Foker discharged a prodigious bouquet at her, and even Smirke made a feeble shy with a rose, and blushed dreadfully when it fell into the pit
    • If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
  • 2

    A place for throwing.

    • coconut shy
  • 3

    A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

  • 4

    In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.

  • 5

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.

  • 6

    In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.

  • 7

    archaicA gibe; a sneer.

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。