timorous

• He turned a long you are wrong gaze on stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment , with a glance also of entreaty for he seemed to glean in a kind of a way that it wasn t all exactly
  关于自己口气温和地提出责难一事，他暗自怯生生地感到骄傲，把视线转到斯蒂芬身上，凝视了他好半晌。似乎表示：你的看法才错了呢。他的目光又包含着恳求，因为他觉得那也并不尽然。
• " alas , excellency , " returned bertuccio , joining his hands , and shaking his head in a manner that would have excited the count s laughter , had not thoughts of a superior interest occupied him , and rendered him attentive to the least revelation of this timorous conscience
  大人， ”贝尔图乔回答说，两手绞在一起，脑袋直晃，要不是伯爵这时正在思考一件事关重要的事，使他未能注意贝尔图乔这种胆怯的心理，贝尔图乔的这副模样一定会引得他大笑。
• All at once the angry squirrel expression of the princesss lovely little face changed to an attractive look of terror that awakened sympathy . she glanced from under her brows with lovely eyes at her husband , and her face wore the timorous , deprecating look of a dog when it faintly but rapidly wags its tail in penitence
  公爵夫人那副魅人的令人怜悯的畏惧的表情替代了她那漂亮脸盘上像松鼠似的忿忿不平的表情她蹙起额角，用一双秀丽的眼睛望了望丈夫，俨像一只疾速而乏力地摇摆着下垂的尾巴的狗，脸上现出了胆怯的表露心曲的神态。