cowardly 是什么意思

	adj.,adv. 怯懦的〔地〕。

lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
同义词：fearful,

	1.	He thought it would be cowardly to draw back . 他认为后退就是示弱。
	2.	The cowardly attack broke her . 这一懦怯的攻击把她打垮了。
	3.	It was cowardly of you not to admit your mistake . 你不承认错误就不是好样儿的。
	4.	He thought the letter cowardly and hypocritical . 他认为这封信写得既怯懦又伪善。
	5.	It was cowardly of him to retrograde in face of danger . 他很懦弱，临危时退却了。
	6.	I'm cowardly about things that remind me of myself . 我对那些使我回忆起往事的东西总感到胆怯。
	7.	She accused the government of a cowardly surrender in big-business interests . 她指责政府畏首畏尾屈从于大企业的利益。
	8.	He commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation . 他自己也开始哭起来，又连忙跑出去去掩盖他那怯弱的感情。
	9.	Of all forms of arrant untruthfulness victorian optimism appears to me to have been the most cowardly and the most damaging . 在一切形式的彻头彻尾的虚假中，在我看来维多利亚时代的乐观主义是最怯弱的也是最有害的。
	10.	It is enough to make the blood stop flowing in one's veins to hear a man excuse this cowardly and beastly crime on the ground that it was "instinctive" ! 居然有人以“本能”为借口来为这桩怯懦的、卑劣的罪行开脱，这话听了足以使人们血管里的血停止流动！

cowardly是什么意思