be shy of

基本解释

Taking such delays into account, the saving rate may still be shy of its peak, but not by much.
考虑到这种因素，储蓄率可能还不到最高点，但也不差多少了。
If you want something to eat, don’t be shy of saying so.
你要吃点什么，别不好意思说。

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

Africans tend to be shy of their beliefs and do not discuss them easily with outsiders.
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Pittsburgh was looking for its 15th straight victory, which would be two shy of the NHL record set by Mario Lemieux and the 1992-93 Penguins.
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Such developments reflect, too, a generational change in Brazil's highly professional foreign service: older diplomats, who worked during the cold war and Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship, are giving way to younger ones, who feel that the world's ninth-largest economy should be less shy of flexing its democratic muscles.
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