spineless

单词spineless

基本解释

adj.: 没有骨气的；怯懦的；无脊椎的；无脊柱的
网络: 没骨气的；没脊梁；懦弱的

权威解释

• 没有骨气的；怯懦的:

  weak and easily frightened

• 无脊椎的；无脊柱的:

  having no spine (= the long bone in the back)

• 无刺的:

  having no spines(= sharp parts like needles)

英汉解释

• 【生物学】无刺的

• 无脊骨的

• 没骨气[勇气]的,优柔寡断的

同义词

adj.patheticgutlesscowardlyweakspiritless

反义词

adj.strong-willed

例句

• 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。

• Even South Africa, whose spineless president, Thabo Mbeki, is still refusing to criticise Mr Mugabe outright, has begun to turn against him.

  甚至连南非都开始反对他了，南非总统塔博·姆贝基是个软弱的家伙，他一直拒绝直率的批评穆加贝先生。

• India is ruled by an impotent eunch that barks when his mistress sais so. Do not expect tough talk from the spineless eunch.

  印度被一帮性无能的妻管严统治着，别指望这些家伙能硬起来。

• 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ThomasOgnibene，则指责他胆小怕事、毫无骨气。

• At a time of crisis, why are Britain"s politicians so spineless?

  危急时刻，为何英国政治家如此懦弱？

• Likewise, the coup plotters insisted, the weak and spineless Soviet president and party boss, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, had to go.

  同样，政变行动的策划者一致认为，软弱而无骨气的苏联总统和党的总书记米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫也必须下台走人。

• Nodding in agreement with everything, regardless of the message, makes you look somewhat sycophantic , perhaps even spineless .

  不管别人说什么都点头附和的行为，显得你溜须拍马、毫无骨气。

• It"s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards.

  人们有份工作后，自由意志好像都莫名其妙地被排干了，全变成了没骨气的胆小鬼。

• Gul"dan: Spineless cowards! I said move!

  古尔丹：一群孬种！我叫你们前进！

• Branches usually flattened, leaflike, with a stout midrib, soft, spineless.

  通常扁平，叶状的分枝，具一粗壮中脉，柔软，无刺。