To approach the village at night a timid man requires great strategy.

如果一个人胆子不大，却想在夜里进这村子的话，那么他得拥有超人的胆略。

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None gave him more hints, in answering questions, or asked him simpler ones than the economics professor, a thin, timid man named Bassum.

而在教授当中，经济学教授又在他回答问题时给他最多的暗示，问他的问题也最简单。经济学教授是一个瘦削、胆小的人，名叫巴瑟姆。

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Every moralist whose morality consists of 'don 'ts', every timid man who' lets I dare not wait upon I would ', every tyrant who compels his subjects to live in fear, becomes in time a part of Satan.

每一个用一大堆“不可以”来构建自己的道德的道德家，每一个说“让我敢想做什么就做什么吧”的懦弱的人，每一个使其臣民生活在恐惧之中的暴君，都不时地成为撒旦的一部分。

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So we really don't know how he feels about being called a timid and overly decent man who avoids confrontation at the cost of credibility.

BBC: Manmohan Singh and the politics of decency

In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish