面對人時的退縮
退開的對象是人。這是核心畫面最日常的落點，也是 shyness 這個名詞真正常用的地方。
shyness, social nervousness · adjective · C1
The feeling that makes it hard to meet people or talk to them, especially people you do not know, because you feel nervous and your face may go hot.
害羞
核心畫面
A useful way to picture it: something in you pulls back instead of forward. An animal shies away from a hand; a person hangs back from the group. The word names that backing-off — and once you have it, the other meanings are just different things being backed away from, or the gap left when you stop short.
有股力量把你往後拉，而不是往前推。馬看到影子會往旁邊一閃，人在陌生人面前會退半步——shy 抓的就是那個「不往前」的…更多收起
有股力量把你往後拉，而不是往前推。馬看到影子會往旁邊一閃，人在陌生人面前會退半步——shy 抓的就是那個「不往前」的動作。有意思的是，一旦你握住這個畫面，其餘的意思都只是換了「退開的對象」：退開人群是害羞，退開鏡頭是 camera-shy，甚至連「還差一點」也是同一件事——你停在目標前面，沒走到。要注意的是，這個詞條掛在名詞 shyness 底下，但底下好幾個意思其實只活在形容詞 shy 身上，名詞形式並不通用。Three branches
面對某件事時的卻步
退開的對象從人換成一件事或一個動作：不是怕人看，是不太想做、不好意思做。
shyness, reluctance · adjective · C1
The feeling that makes someone unwilling to do something or to join in, often in the pattern shyness about doing it.
不好意思
還差一點的距離
把「退縮」從心理搬到數字上：你停在目標前面沒有走到，剩下的那段差距就是 shy of。
shy of · adjective · C1
Having a little less than a number, age, or amount you name. This sense lives on the adjective shy in the pattern shy of, not on the noun shyness.
還差
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。
shynessnoun/ˈʃaɪnəs/
- 1
The quality of being shy; a fear of social interactions.
- Her shyness kept her from asking him to the prom.
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。