coy
adjective/kɔɪ/
/kɔɪ/
- shy or pretending to be shy and innocent, especially about love or sex, sometimes in order to make people more interested in you
害羞或假装害羞和天真，尤其是在爱情或性方面，有时是为了让人们对你更感兴趣 - She gave me a coy smile.
她羞答答地对我笑了笑。 - He went all coy when I mentioned her name.
我提到她的名字时，他一下子变得非常害羞。 - She gave him a rather coy look.
她有点儿忸怩地看了他一眼。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- play
- go
- …
- all
- extremely
- very
- …
- She gave me a coy smile.
- coy (about something) not willing to give information about something, or give answers that tell people too much about you
不愿意提供有关某事的信息，或者给出的答案让人们过多了解您 - She was a little coy about how much her contract is worth.
对于她的合同价值多少，她有点含糊其辞。 - The company is coy about revealing its profits.
该公司不愿透露其利润。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- remain
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
- She was a little coy about how much her contract is worth.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French coi, quei, from Latin quietus ‘repose, quiet’. The original sense was ‘quiet, still’ (especially in behaviour), later ‘modestly retiring’, and hence (of a woman) ‘affecting to be unresponsive to advances’.