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。

He died before Christmas, only a month shy of his 90th birthday.

他在圣诞节前去世了，仅差一个月就满90岁。

I'm shy of three dollars.

我缺三块钱。

She is shy of strangers.

她怕陌生人。

Gasoline now costs an average of $3.15 a gallon, seven cents shy of the record set last May.

汽油现在的平均价格是每加仑3.15美元，仅比去年五月的记录低了七美分。

Just shy of 50, she says she'd never have wanted to do what her mother did—give up a career to raise a family.

年近50的她说，她从来没有想要做母亲做过的事——放弃事业来养家糊口。

He speaks French and German as well as Dutch, but he is shy of using English in public although he is fluent in it.

他能说法语、德语和荷兰语，尽管他的英语说得很流利，但他却羞于在公共场合使用它。

My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.

我的母亲只有不到五英尺高，平时说话非常温和，但极少数生气的时候，她会表现得很可怕。

Leaving locals shy of resources.

当地居民缺少获取棕榈树资源的权利。

He was 12 days shy of his 114th birthday.

黑尔去世时，离他114岁的生日还仅有12天。

Tonight there are just shy of 5, 000 wandwavers.

今晚只有不足5,000的挥棒者。

They're very curious and a little shy of people.

它们非常好奇，还有点怕人。

She paused, though, a little shy of me, a stranger.

她顿了一下，在我这个陌生人面前还是有点儿害羞。

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。

She died of cancer in 1852, two weeks shy of her 37th birthday.

她于1852年死于癌症，离37岁生日不足两星期。

Her classmate was three weeks shy of his 16th birthday. That made.

当时那个男生才十六岁，她同学躲了她三个星期。

We should never feel shy of accepting responsibilities of outcomes from our actions.

我们永远不要感到接受自己行动带来的责任而感到害羞。

That is a big improvement, and just shy of the record 1, 125 billionaires in 2008.

这是一大进步，只比2008年创纪录的1,125位差了一点。

It was faster and did not fight shy of trumpeting the opposition's excellent showing.

此网站对信息的发布更为快捷，对反对派的出色表现不加回避。

But if we propose to think the mind, we must not be quite so shy of its special phenomena.

但我们既然以精神为思考的对象，就不可太回避精神的特殊现象。

And he is never shy of a bold plan, particularly in the run-up to a tight election next spring.

他对大胆的计划从不掩掩藏藏，特别是在明年春天选举准备阶段。

The peak of its pylon is 452 feet high, while the bridge's total length is just shy of a mile.

最高塔架高达452英尺，而桥全长度不足一英里。

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。

So 3 days shy of her first birthday, I quit my job, we sold our house and started on our new path.

所以，在她第一个生日的3天前，我辞去了工作，我们卖掉了房子，开始了我们新的生活。