timid: [16] The Latin verb timēre meant ‘fear’ (its origins are not known). From it were derived the adjective timidus (source of English timid) and the noun timor ‘fear’ (whose medieval Latin descendant timorōsus ‘fearful’ gave English timorous [15]). => timorous
timid (adj.)
1540s, from Middle French timide "easily frightened, shy" (16c.) and directly from Latin timidus "fearful, afraid, cowardly," from timere "to fear," of uncertain origin. Related: Timidly; timidness.
雙語例句
1. The newspaper called the plan timid and unimaginative.
該報稱這一計劃謹小慎微，毫無想象力。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He stopped in the doorway, too timid to go in.
他在門口停住了腳步，不好意思進去。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.