He was a nice doctor, but a weak man who wasn't going to stick his neck out.

他是个好医生，但为人懦弱，遇事不敢出头。

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eg. Stick your neck out.

伸出你的脖子来。

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Give longneck. Jut your neck out ever-so-slightly.

把脖子伸长，把你的脖子稍微伸出来。

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Later,he said: "If it were not for the high office I held, I would have taken him by the seat of the pants and the nape of the neck and thrown him out the window."

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The blood is spurting out of her neck or her side or whatever and she's groaning down there on the thing.

血从她的脖子或者侧边,或者其他部位喷出,她呻吟着倒下

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And a medal was placed around the neck of Muhammed Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who pioneered a way to lift people out of poverty through a community banking program that gives small loans to entrepreneurs with no collateral.

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Anybody who sticks his neck out about these things is going to get the same treatment.

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Ms Hyslop said she has "stuck her neck out" for headteachers in the past.

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Will she stick her neck out for you if someone gives you a hard time?

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