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spine·less 英ˈspaɪnlɪs美ˈspaɪnlɪsAHDspīnʹlĭs ☆☆☆☆☆高四ＧＩＳＴ宝COCA⁵²³⁵¹BNC⁴⁴⁷³³iWeb³³²³⁸Economist²⁹⁹⁰¹⁺⁴
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adj.无脊椎的²⁹;没有骨气的⁴⁶;懦弱的²⁵副词spinelessly名词spinelessness
动物胆小胆怯懦弱，胆小
Adjective:
weak in willpower, courage or vitalitylacking a backbone or spinal column;worms are an example of invertebrate animals lacking spiny processes;spineless fins lacking thornsspine,脊柱，脊椎，-less,无，没有。引申比喻义懦弱的，没骨气的。GRE红宝书spine脊椎，刺＋le ss→无脊椎的→没骨气的
spine 音：死板，人很死板就是椎骨很硬，不弯曲，有骨气的 + less 否定；GRE难词记忆spineless→spine n.脊柱+less→没有脊柱的→没骨气的词根记忆spine脊椎，刺+ less → 无脊椎的 ⇒没骨气的词根记忆spine脊骨近义词 weak弱的timid胆怯的craven懦弱的yellow黄色的cowardly懦弱的pathetic可怜的gutless没有勇气的namby-pamby感伤的spiritless无生气的faint-hearted胆怯的weak-willed意志薄弱的invertebrate无脊椎动物thornlessthorn的形容词形式…wishy-washy缺乏力量或香味的…反义词 spinous多刺的
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用作形容词A jellyfish is aspinelessanimal.水母是无脊椎动物。
My supervisor is aspinelessperson. He never stands behind his decisions.我的主管是一个没骨气的人。他不敢为他做的决定负责。
At a time of crisis, why are Britain's politicians sospineless?危急时刻，为何英国政治家如此懦弱？adj.cowardly
同义词 invertebrateamoebalike,faint-hearted,fearful,feeble,forceless,frightened,gutless,impotent,inadequate,ineffective,ineffectual,irresolute,lily-livered,nerveless,pithless,soft,spiritless,squeamish,submissive,timid,vacillating,weak,weak-kneed,weak-willed,yellow,yellow-bellied
反义词 bold,brave,strong
chickenheartedadjective cowardly
chicken,craven,faint-hearted,fearful,lily-livered,pusillanimous,timid,yellow,yellow-bellied
cowardlyadjective fearful
afraid,anxious,apprehensive,backward,base,chicken-hearted,cowering,cowhearted,craven,dastardly,diffident,dismayed,fainthearted,frightened,gutless,having the willies,jittery,lacking courage,lily-livered,nervous,no guts,panicky,pigeonhearted,pusillanimous,recreant,retiring,running scared,scared,shrinking,shy,soft,spineless,timid,timorous,weak,weak-kneed,worthless,yellow,yellow-bellied
faintheartedadjective timid
afraid,cowardly,cowed,cowering,fearful,frightened,gutless,having cold feet,intimidated,lily-livered,meek,mousy,spineless,unassertive,weak,wimpy,yellow
fawningadjective deferential, groveling
abject,adulatory,bootlicking,bowing,brown-nosing,compliant,cowering,crawling,cringing,flattering,humble,ingratiating,kowtowing,mealy-mouthed,obsequious,parasitic,prostrate,scraping,servile,slavish,sniveling,spineless,submissive,subservient,sycophant,sycophantic
fearfuladjective alarmed, apprehensive
aflutter,afraid,aghast,agitated,anxious,chicken,chickenhearted,diffident,discomposed,disquieted,disturbed,fainthearted,frightened,goose-bumpy,have cold feet,hesitant,in a dither,intimidated,jittery,jumpy,lily-livered,mousy,nerveless,nervous,nervy,panicky,perturbed,phobic,pusillanimous,quivery,rabbity,running scared,scared,shaky,sheepish,shrinking,shy,skittish,solicitous,spineless,tense,timid,timorous,tremulous,uneasy,unmanly,weak-kneed,worried,yellow
gutlessadjective timid
abject,chicken,chicken-hearted,coward,cowardly,craven,faint-hearted,feeble,irresolute,lily-livered,pusillanimous,spineless,submissive,weak,wimpy,yellow,yellow-bellied And you can laugh a spineless laugh.
你可以蔑视那些缺乏骨气的笑声。 blog.sina.com.cn
As Carmen’s best friend, Gina Rodriguez conveys terror behind a fun-loving veneer; as Carmen’s affluent white boyfriend, Derrick Denicola is pretty, charming and spineless.
吉娜·罗吉瑞格兹是卡门最好的朋友，她表现了隐藏在寻欢作乐面具下的恐惧；德瑞克·丹尼科拉是卡门有钱的白人男友，他英俊潇洒，但软弱。 yeeyan
He showed “ a disbelieving world that republican government could prosper without being spineless or disorderly or reverting to authoritarian rule”.
只要有骨气，有秩序，不向权贵折腰，共和政府也能繁荣了一个缺乏信任的国度。 ecocn
It is said that life is an outward journey and there is not much time for us to squander, to grieve or feel depressed. It will be even spineless to give up our hope.
生命就是一次单程旅行，没有太多的时光可以挥霍、痛苦或沉沦，放弃希望更是懦弱的表现。 blog.sina.com.cn
And a fellow Republican, Thomas Ognibene, who would also like the mayor's job, has called him“ spineless”.
而他的共和党同僚、同样也对市长的职位垂涎三尺的 Thomas Ognibene，则指责他胆小怕事、毫无骨气。 ecocn
At least you’re not one of those “ spineless” elites with an Ivy League education, like President Obama, who can’t feel anything.
至少你不是那种没骨气的常春藤高校毕业生，比如奥巴马总统，对万事漠不关心。 yeeyan
Both controversies have revived popular Palestinian perceptions of Fatah as the “wheeler-dealers” of the PA, corrupt and spineless collaborators with the Israeli occupier.
这两项争议已经恢复了巴勒斯坦人民对于法塔赫党的看法，认为他们是「巴勒斯坦自治政府内的狡猾骗徒」、贪腐又懦弱地与以色列占领军勾结。 ecocn
Followership You don't have to be a spineless yes-person to be a good follower.
服从精神你无须凡事唯唯诺诺才算是一名好的追随者。 hicoo
Gangsters are preying on a small mid-western town. The sheriff and his deputies are spineless; law and order have failed.
歹徒正在抢劫美国中部的一个县城，该县长官和助手们都是一群懦夫，因此法律和秩序就形同虚设。 yeeyan
He was infamously and unfairly traduced in Samuel Eliot Morison’s magisterial “The Oxford History of the American People” as a kindly soul in a spineless body.
塞缪尔•埃利奥特•莫里森的权威著作《美国人的牛津历史》无耻中伤麦金利，称他温和驯良、懦弱胆怯。 ecocn.org
He was really angry at his boss but was afraid to tell him. Sometimes he's so spineless.
他对老板很恼火，但又不敢对他直说。有时他太懦弱了。 idsky.cn
How long will I endure the insincere prayers of your spineless subjects?
我究竟还要忍耐多久你这种虚情假意的祷告？ iciba
In 1980 the rise of the neocons— liberal intellectuals who abandoned a spineless Democratic Party—was reinforced by the birth of working class“ Reagan Democrats”.
1980年，自由主义知识分子脱离懦弱无力的民主党成为新保守主义者，这一群体的崛起随着出身工人阶级的里根式民主党人的诞生而得以强化。 yeeyan
It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards.
这就好像是得到了一份工作后却又不知何故地丢失了自由意志，并使得这些人变成了没有骨气的懦夫。 yeeyan
Our great spineless leader.
我们伟大而懦弱的领袖。 blog.sina.com.cn
Such nerve, along with Syria’s generous accommodation of Iraqi refugees, improved Mr Assad’s Arab nationalist credentials just when America’s moderate Arab allies looked callow and spineless.
如此的勇气，加上叙利亚慷慨地安置伊拉克难民，恰巧在美国相当数量的阿拉伯世界盟友看起来有些年幼，没有勇气的时候，大大增强了巴沙尔的领导阿拉伯国家的能力。 ecocn
The word“ French”, which during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was sometimes employed in America as an abusive synonym for “ spineless”, is now more likely to be used to mean“ socialist”.
2003年伊战开始期间，“法国”这个单词在美国曾等同于“软骨头”，而如今其含义似乎更接近“社会主义”。 yeeyan
The rest within IBM were pretty spineless, trying to continue with business as usual and caring only for their own division's next- quarter sales outlook.
但是 IBM内部其他的人都颇为软骨，还试图象平常那样做着生意，只关心自己部门下个季度的销量前景。 yeeyan
This from a spineless body that won't dare stand up to a disgraced president nor turn down a single funding request for a war that neither they nor the American public support.
这样的英勇出自一个在声名狼藉的总统面前一点骨气都没有，对全国上下同声反对的战争拨款一次也没否决成的国会。 yeeyan |