lily-livered
常见例句
- But its lily-livered approach might, in fact, be the right one.
但实际上这种胆小的做法也许是正确的。 - The Tory right cheered, knowing which alternative, non-lily-livered model of prime minister he had in mind.
托利党右派欢呼雀跃,他们知道他心里想的不胆怯的的替代首相是谁。 - Mr Awad is a former fighter from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, not a lily-livered pacifist.
Awad先前是黎巴嫩一座巴勒斯坦难民营的好战分子,而非怯懦的和平主义者。 - The more lily-livered Arab states, who shunned Libya, can now perhaps be forgiven, under the latest banner, Arab-African unity.
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