When you say "once bitten, twice shy" to something, you mean you have had an unpleasant experience and now you are much more careful to avoid similar experience.
类似于俗语中的“一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳”,指当事人因为以前的事情留下阴影,而不敢去尝试相似的经历。
Wells, a shy Eton schoolmaster who, besides teaching classics, had two passions: cricket and fishing. Over a long career he twice bowled out w.
威尔斯,伊顿中学一个教员同时也教授古典文学的内向男子,有两项小嗜好:板球和垂钓,在漫长的生涯中,他两次打破w。
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