coward
英 ['kaʊəd]
美['kaʊɚd]
- n. 懦夫，懦弱的人
- adj. 胆小的，懦怯的
- n. (Coward)人名；(英)科沃德
词态变化
复数: cowards;形容词: cowardly;
中文词源
coward 胆小鬼
来自拉丁词cauda, 尾巴，词源同coda, queue. 原指动物夹着尾巴逃走，后指人胆小。
英英释意
- 1. a person who shows fear or timidity
英文词源
- coward
- coward: [13] Etymologically, a coward seems to be ‘someone who runs away with his tail between his legs’. It comes from Old French cuard, which was based on *cōda, the Vulgar Latin descendant of Latin cauda ‘tail’. (The apparently similar cower [13] is no relation, coming from Middle Low German *kūren ‘lie in wait’.)
- coward (n.)
- mid-13c., from Old French coart "coward" (no longer the usual word in French, which has now in this sense poltron, from Italian, and lâche), from coe "tail," from Latin coda, popular dialect variant of cauda "tail," which is of uncertain origin + -ard, an agent noun suffix denoting one that carries on some action or possesses some quality, with derogatory connotation (see -ard).
The word probably reflects an animal metaphoric sense still found in expressions like turning tail and tail between legs. Coart was the name of the hare in Old French versions of "Reynard the Fox." Italian codardo, Spanish cobarde are from French.The identification of coward & bully has gone so far in the popular consciousness that persons & acts in which no trace of fear is to be found are often called coward(ly) merely because advantage has been taken of superior strength or position .... [Fowler]
As a surname (attested from 1255) it represents Old English cuhyrde "cow-herd." Farmer has coward's castle "a pulpit," "Because a clergyman may deliver himself therefrom without fear of contradiction or argument."
实用场景例句
- You coward! What are you afraid of?
- 你这胆小鬼！你怕什么呢？
牛津词典
- I'm a real coward when it comes to going to the dentist.
- 我一去看牙医就胆战心惊。
牛津词典
- a cowardly attack on a defenceless man
- 欺负一个没有自卫能力的人的不光彩行为
牛津词典
- She accused her husband of being a coward.
- 她指责丈夫胆小懦弱。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Scarlett: You, Ashley, a coward? What are you afraid of?
- 斯佳丽: 你, 希礼, 是个懦夫? 你怕什么 呢 ?
期刊摘选
- She insulted him by calling him a coward.
- 她辱骂他是个胆小鬼.
期刊摘选
- A coward is one who faces anything difficult or dangerous by turning his back on it.
- 一个胆小的人在面对任何困难和危险时只会转过身去逃避.
期刊摘选
- At bottom I am not a coward.
- 其实我不是胆小鬼.
辞典例句
- I am a terrible coward when it come to dealing with sick people.
- 在处理病人方面,我是个糟糕的懦夫.
期刊摘选
- You are your greatest enemy are a coward ; butare brave, you are your greatest friend.
- 怯懦 者是自己最大的敌人.勇敢者是自己最好的朋友.
期刊摘选
- He is a coward by his own admission.
- 他自己承认是个胆小鬼.
期刊摘选
- She doesn't know me and I don't even know her name! Coward!
- 她不认识我,而且我连她的名字都不知道呢! 你 说我是懦夫!
期刊摘选
- Coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
- 懦夫就是在危急时刻用两条腿思考的人.
期刊摘选
- I call him a coward to his face.
- 我当面称他为懦夫.
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- Noticing that there was likely to be trouble, the coward sneaked away.
- 那个胆小鬼看到有可能发生骚乱时就溜开了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- He who blames one to his face is a hero , but who backbites is a coward.
- 好汉当面责备, 懦夫背后诋毁.
期刊摘选
- The veriest coward would accept the challenge.
- 就是那最懦弱的胆小鬼也会接受这种挑战.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- A bully is always a coward.
- 暴汉常是懦夫.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- To call a brave man a coward is an insult.
- 把勇士称为懦夫是一种侮辱.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- I was basically a dreadful coward.
- 从根本上说,我非常胆小怕事.
《简明英汉词典》
- The newspapers had unjustly labelled him as a coward.
- 那家报纸不公正地称他为懦夫.
《简明英汉词典》
- He is a bit of a coward.
- 他有点胆小.
期刊摘选
- Sir No ? l Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer.
- 诺尔·皮尔斯·考沃德爵士是一名英国剧作家, 作曲家, 导演, 演员和歌手.
期刊摘选
- You, Ashley? A coward?
- 你, 阿希礼? 是个懦夫?
期刊摘选
- You coward! What are you afraid of?
- 你这胆小鬼！你怕什么呢？
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- She was a rotten coward.
- 她是一个讨厌的胆小鬼。
柯林斯例句
- She shot to stardom on Broadway in a Noel Coward play.
- 她因在百老汇出演了一部诺埃尔·科沃德的戏一炮而红。
柯林斯例句
- He's a coward and a bully who confuses physical strength with manhood.
- 他是一个懦夫，一个分不清蛮力和大丈夫气概的恃强凌弱者。
柯林斯例句
- Wiggins says he's not a coward, but that he's philosophically opposed to war.
- 威金斯说他不是懦夫，只是从哲学上来说他是反战的。
柯林斯例句