gun-shy / ˈgʌnˌʃaɪ /
💦中学词汇畏惧枪支胆小怕事畏惧枪械胆小的人
gun-shy 的定义
adj. 形容词 adjective- frightened by the sound of a gunshot: a gun-shy bird dog.
- hesitant, wary, or distrustful, especially because of previous unpleasant experience.
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- His peers remember him as a bright man who spoke softly and occasionally came across as a bit shy.
- “You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
- That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
- I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?
- They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
- This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.
- He turned at the sound of my voice with vastly more concern than he'd betrayed under the muzzle of Piegan's gun.
- Possibly, he would not shy at such monstrosities after twenty miles of a lathering ride.
- He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.
- Here Robinson suddenly turned pale, and, hastily reaching out for his gun, sprang to his feet.