单词 | squeamish |
释义 | squeamishWord family adverbsqueamishlyadjectivesqueamishnounsqueamishness squeam·ish /ˈskwiːmɪʃ/ adjectiveadj 1. SHOCKeasily shocked or upset, or easily made to feel sick by seeing unpleasant things 易受惊的;易恶心的;神经脆弱的 2 the squeamish [plural] people who are squeamish 神经脆弱的人 His new novel is not for the squeamish. 他的新小说不是给神经脆弱的人看的。 Examples from the Corpus not for the squeamish• The spectacle after a kill is not for the squeamish.• What emerged was not for the squeamish.• It is not for the squeamish, but equally it is not for the merely despairing. —squeamishness noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus squeamish• He doesn't consider himself squeamish.• There's no time to feel squeamish.• Though insects are a dietary staple in much of the world, squeamish Western palates resist.• Entomology became more fashionable once better killing bottles provided the squeamish with a less offensive method of collecting specimens. (1300-1400) Anglo-French escoymous |
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