milquetoast，英語單詞，主要用作名詞，作名詞時譯為“膽小者，懦夫；意志薄弱的人”。
基本介紹
- 外文名：milquetoast
- 詞性：名詞
- 英式發音：['mɪlktəʊst]
- 美式發音：[ˈmɪlktoʊst]
單詞用法,雙語例句,
單詞用法
milquetoast /ˈmɪlkˌtəʊst/
1.N a meek, submissive, or timid person 懦夫; 膽小鬼 [美國英語]
雙語例句
You don't get those kinds of results by being a milquetoast, and Sokol — as driven an executive as I've met — rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.這樣的成就絕難出自一位意志薄弱者，而索科爾——正如我所見，一個充滿動力的高管——曾激怒了很多人。
Voltaire, he insists, was a milquetoast careerist, too concerned with his own reputation and his comfortable life to say anything truly unsettling.作者堅持認為，伏爾泰是個膽小如鼠的勢利小人，他過於追求自己的名譽和舒適的生活，因此不會說出任何令人不安的真相。
But there's something disturbing about the way it flattens everything it describes, how it embodies milquetoast consensus, and the nature of its objective language.但是，有些因素在影響它將描述的東西大眾化，它如何嵌入那些不成熟的共識和其客觀評論的特性。
