craven

英 [ˈkreɪvn]

美 [ˈkreɪvn]

adj.  胆小的; 胆怯的; 怯懦的

复数：cravens　

GRETEM8

BNC.13236 / COCA.27015

牛津词典

adj.

• 胆小的；胆怯的；怯懦的
  lacking courage

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 胆小的;懦弱的
  Someone who iscravenis very cowardly.
  1. They condemned the deal as a craven surrender.
     他们谴责这笔交易为毫无志气的投降行为。
  2. ...his craven obedience to his employers.
     他懦弱怕事，对雇主一味地服从

双语例句

• Just then Mrs Medlock arrived, in her best black dress, to take Mary down to Mr Craven's room.
  这时，梅洛太太进来了。她穿上了她最好的黑色长裙，带玛丽下楼到克莱文先生的房间。
• Blues, craven, personation skilled; prey eyes and sharp teeth.
  忧郁，怯懦，会易容术；灰色眼睛。牙齿锋利。
• At that moment, hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire, Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time, and saying,' I'm going to live for ever and ever and ever!' But Mr Craven did not know this.
  也就在那一刻，在几百英里外的约克郡，柯林第一次见到了秘密花园，正在说着，我会永远永远活下去！
• They condemned the deal as a craven surrender.
  他们谴责这笔交易为毫无志气的投降行为。
• "He gave us a sense of dignity by not being craven, unlike Egypt's Hosni Mubarak," says one Syrian analyst of Mr Assad's relationship with America.
  “与穆巴拉克不同，阿萨德给我们一种不容侵犯的尊严感”，一位来自叙利亚分析阿陈萨德与美国关系的人士指出。
• Louise Craven, What Are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader.
  路易丝•克雷文，《档案馆是什么？文化和理论视角：一个读者》。
• He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.
  他不许空的诺言，也不找怯懦的借口，说他的手被世界上比他自己更强大的力量束缚住了。
• To back down would be a craven surrender to political correctness and an abdication of what I believe to be the main responsibility of this committee-to protect America from a terrorist attack.
  放弃意味着懦弱，意味着向政治正确性投降，意味着放弃了该委员会主要的责任&保护美国免受恐怖主义袭击。
• He found his form at Craven Cottage and made a positive impression on Blues chief Jose Mourinho during the summer.
  他在克拉文农场找到了自己的状态，并且在夏天给蓝军主帅穆里尼奥留下了深刻的印象。
• I had no doubt that the craven fellow would be only too pleased to back out.
  我毫不怀疑那个胆小的家伙巴不得撒手退出呢。