shy

英 [?a?] 美[?a?]

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第三人稱單數:?shies;過去式:?shied;過去分詞:?shied;現在分詞:?shying;比較級:?shyer或shier;最高級:?shyest;副詞:?shyly;名詞:?shyness;

shy 羞怯的，靦腆的，怕生的

來自古英語 sceoh,害羞的，來自 Proto-Germanic*skiuhwaz,害羞的，畏懼的，可能來自 PIE*skeu, 隱藏，遮蓋，詞源同 hide,shun.

shy 投擲，亂扔

詞源不詳，可能來自 shoot 俚語形式，常見于游戲名 coconut shy.

shy: shy: Shy ‘timid, reserved’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skeukhwaz ‘afraid’ (source also of English eschew and skew). It is generally assumed that shy ‘throw’ [18] must have come from it, but the exact nature of the relationship between the two words is not clear. The original application of the verb seems to have been specifically to the throwing of sticks at chickens, and it has been suggested, not altogether convincingly, that its use alludes to the notion of a ‘shy’ cockerel that refuses to fight (there was an 18th- and early 19th-century slang term shy-cock which meant ‘cowardly person’).
=> eschew, skew
shy (adj.): late Old English sceoh "timid, easily startled," from Proto-Germanic *skeukh(w)az "afraid" (cognates: Middle Low German schüwe, Dutch schuw, German scheu "shy;" Old High German sciuhen, German scheuchen "to scare away"). Uncertain cognates outside Germanic, unless in Old Church Slavonic shchuti "to hunt, incite." Italian schivare "to avoid," Old French eschiver "to shun" are Germanic loan-words. Meaning "lacking, short of" is from 1895, American English gambling slang. Related: Shyly; shyness.
shy (v.1): "to throw (a missile) with a jerk or toss," 1787, colloquial, of unknown origin and uncertain connection to shy (adj.). Related: Shied; shying.
shy (v.2): "to recoil," 1640s, from shy (adj.). Related: Shied; shying.

1. She was a shy, delicately pretty girl with enormous blue eyes.: 她是一個害羞、嬌美的女孩，長著一雙大大的藍眼睛。

4. The publicity-shy singer spoke frankly in his first interview in three years.: 這位不喜歡拋頭露面的歌手在3年來的首次訪談中暢所欲言。