试图避免某事物：指不愿意或不敢做某事，尽量避免某种情况或行为。
... sensitive to 对...敏感，对...灵敏 shy of 对...有戒心，对...迟疑，畏缩 similar to 和...相似 ...
... shy about singing不好意思唱歌 shy of对…迟疑,畏缩,缺乏 shy of funds资金不足 ...
... north of 超过… par excellence 最杰出的，首屈一指的 privy to 可参与…机密的 shy of 还不到…，还差… vice versa 反之亦然 ...
The band has never been shy of publicity.
这支乐队一向不惮招摇。
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。
Successive governments have fought shy of such measures.
一届接一届政府均不愿采取这些措施。
But,I make a commitment here that once we get to our final report, we will not shy away from making criticisms either of institutions, or processes or individuals wherever they are truly warranted,"
VOA : standard.2009.11.25
If you keep that in mind, and if you're just not shy, I mean, of course you're shy. Everybody's shy.
如果你能记住这个，而且你不害羞，当然你会害羞。所有人都会。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 生存英语
I mean, if you stand in front of an audience on a stage, you're shy.
如果你在台上面对听众，你会害羞。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 生存英语
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.
VOA : standard.2010.03.19
But it's still far shy of its own goal of becoming banker to the third world.
Adjusted EPS was 6 cents a share, well shy of the Street consensus at 11 cents.
FORBES: Bankrate Shrs Plunge 20% On Weak Q4, Soft 2013 Outlook
Earnings dropped from the same quarter last year and came in shy of analysts' consensus forecast.