Aslaksen. Timid? Yes, when it is a question of the local authorities, I am timid, Mr. Billing; it is a lesson I have learned in the school of experience, let me tell you. But try me in higher politics, in matters that concern the government itself, and then see if I am timid.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
You may perhaps remember how Wendell Phillips, in his great Harvard address on "The Scholar and the Republic" reproached some men of learning for their conservatism and timidity, their backwardness in reform. And it is true that conservatism and timidity are never so hateful and harmful as in the scholar. "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," those words which Emerson liked to quote, are words which should ever ring in the scholar's ear.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
``Yes, you could,'' answered he. ``Hoping somehow or other to turn the laugh upon me later on. But really I was not laughing at you. And you can spare yourself the effort of convincing me that you're sincere.'' He was frankly laughing at her now. ``You don't understand the situation--not at all. You fancy that I am hanging back because I am overwhelmed or shy or timid. I assure you I've never been shy or timid about anything I wanted. If I wanted you-- I'd--TAKE you.''英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
"Did he seem comfortable?" she asked. "Comfortable, Mrs. I believe it will mean a new lease of life to your husband. He is an un- common man." "Yes, Christopher is uncommon; he always was," assented Myrtle. "You have everything you want? You were not timid last night alone?" asked the minister. "Yes, I was timid. I heard queer noises," said Myrtle, "but I sha'n't be alone any more.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
She wasn't a bit afraid. But - " he turned round and looked at his wife - " I am a bit surprised at Mr. Sleuth. I should have thought him a timid kind of gentleman - "
He waited a moment, and she felt forced to answer him. "I wouldn't exactly call him timid," she said, in a low voice, "but he is very quiet, certainly. That's why he dislikes going out when there are a lot of people bustling about the streets. I don't suppose he'll be out long."
She hoped with all her soul that Mr. Sleuth would be in very soon - that he would be daunted by the now increasing gloom.英文原著 · 《The Lodger》
Taxed with his timidity, he attempted to excuse himself on the inadmissible plea of moral rectitude. `I have as much personal courage in an honourable cause,' he exclaimed in a passage of false dignity, `as any man in Britain; but as I knew I was committing acts of injustice, so I went to them half loth and half consenting; and in that sense I own I am a coward indeed.'英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
I think the snap back made me even more timid, somehow.美剧 · 《Billions》