1·The band has never been shy of publicity.
这支乐队一向不惮招摇。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·He disliked her and had never been shy of saying so.
他不喜欢她，而且从来不忌讳说出来。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Successive governments have fought shy of such measures.
一届接一届政府均不愿采取这些措施。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·He died before Christmas, only a month shy of his 90th birthday.
他在圣诞节前去世了，仅差一个月就满90岁。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·I'm shy of three dollars.
我缺三块钱。
6·She is shy of strangers.
她怕陌生人。
7·Gasoline now costs an average of $3.15 a gallon, seven cents shy of the record set last May.
汽油现在的平均价格是每加仑3.15美元，仅比去年五月的记录低了七美分。
8·Just shy of 50, she says she'd never have wanted to do what her mother did—give up a career to raise a family.
年近50的她说，她从来没有想要做母亲做过的事——放弃事业来养家糊口。
9·He speaks French and German as well as Dutch, but he is shy of using English in public although he is fluent in it.
他能说法语、德语和荷兰语，尽管他的英语说得很流利，但他却羞于在公共场合使用它。
10·My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.
我的母亲只有不到五英尺高，平时说话非常温和，但极少数生气的时候，她会表现得很可怕。