什么?!shy竟然不是“害羞”的意思!!

我们从小学习英语都知道shy是害羞的意思。

今天小编带大家挖掘有关shy更多有趣实用的表达，

一起学一学吧~

shy

Someone who's extremely shy might blush or stammer when talking to a group of people. Shy can also mean "tending to avoid," like when someone is "camera shy," or if they "shy away" from being straightforward. The Old English root scēoh, "easily frightened," originally only referred to a horse, and came from a Germanic root meaning "scare."

一个极度shy的人在和一群人说话时可能会脸红或结巴。Shy也意味着倾向于逃避，比如有人"camera shy"会比较逃避镜头，或者他们羞于直言。古英语词根scēoh意思是很容易受惊，最初只指马，来自日耳曼词根，意为惊吓。

# shy of something

只差

slightly less than, slightly earlier than, or a short distance from something

比某物稍小、稍早或稍近的距离;只差

例：

They scored just shy of 100 goals last year.

他们去年进了将近100个球。(离100很近，但是差一点没到一百)

I called him only two minutes shy of midnight.

我在离午夜只有两分钟的时候打电话给他。

# shy用在动物上

怕人;受惊

如果shy用来形容动物，并不是说某个动物害羞，而是说它害怕人靠近

例：

The deer were shy (= unwilling to be near people) and hid behind some trees.

那些鹿害怕人，都藏在树后。

同时作动词用在动物身上也表示“受惊”

(of a horse) to suddenly move sideways or backwards, especially because of fear

(马)受惊，惊退

例：

There's a lot of traffic on the road - I'm sure my horse is going to shy.

路上交通很拥挤——我敢肯定我的马会受惊。

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