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词汇 yellow-belly
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Definition of yellow-belly in English:

yellow-belly

nounˈjɛləʊbɛliˈjɛloʊ ˌbɛli
informal
  • 1A coward.

    胆小鬼,懦夫

    I was serious about my stand against the war and was not just a yellow-belly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Okay I'm going to teach you yellow-bellies to kick and punch.
    • Forget the yellow-bellies; the overcrowded prisons offer myriad low cost Rambo wannabes.
    • Of course, that don't mean having a revolution every day like them yellow-bellies and Bolsheviki, or every time some job-holder does something he ain't got no business to do.
    • And the fact that Stevie can sign, seal, and deliver on the Lakers front court to the tune of a triple-double does not bode well for the yellow-bellies.
    • As film historian Thomas Doherty notes, the ‘slanderous central conceit’ of High Noon was that ‘the Old West was packed with no-account yellow-bellies.’
  • 2Any of a number of animals with yellow underparts.

    黄腹动物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (E. flaviventris) has the most colorful belly of the eastern group, but don't be mislead; an empid with a yellow belly is not necessarily a yellow-belly.
    • It's amazing how fast you can fin when a yellow-belly sea snake is chasing your tail!

Derivatives

  • yellow-bellied

  • adjective ˈjɛləʊˌbɛlɪd
    informal
    • You see that I have no need to hide my name out of shame or some revolting paltry yellow-bellied fear of reprisal from my employers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Fortunately, for all of the yellow-bellied milquetoasts that aren't able to find the directions to Canada, Mr. Benjamin offers some useful suggestions in how to prepare for inevitable conscription: a) Free your mind.
      • Do you know what that yellow-bellied chicken-lover did?
      • Generalising about the yellow-bellied nature of the paella-eaters is very tempting but people have very mixed, contradictory reasons for voting, and maybe the war and last week's bomb was just one of them.
      • No doubt he is just a yellow-bellied coward who simply wanted to have his letter published.
      • So and so's research indicates that even a small rise in temperature might be disastrous to the yellow-bellied sap-sucker of the upper Zambesi.
      • Here he plays Charlie, a yellow-bellied mob lawyer, who hooks up with a cutthroat businessman, Vic (Billy Bob Thornton).
      • Or, as one yellow-bellied wag in Dublin 3 said: ‘For Carlow it's the road from Croker.’
      • It is at these moments that I have time to appreciate what nature has bestowed on us in normalities such as the shapes that trees form against the horizon or the dignity of a yellow-bellied cloud against the grey sky.
      • A yellow-bellied coward who hides behind the Pack for protection -
      • Only a yellow-bellied coward like you would need to gather a gang of six lackeys just to take me on.
      • Jerry wants Rocky to die a slithering, wailing, yellow-bellied coward.
      • The cowardly cyber-stalkers and other anonymous yellow-bellied hate-mongers who lurk on the Internet, preying on decent folks, can jolly well lump it.
      • Significant mammal records include the yellow-bellied weasel and the crab-eating mongoose, both regarded as rare and in need of conservation.
      • So now I'm seen as yellow-bellied, a scaredy cat, and I'm going to have to make a huge gesture to prove otherwise.
      • Baboons can kill a leopard - I am sure a yellow-bellied coward should be no problem.
      • I won't tell you what I think about the yellow-bellied, spineless, poor excuse for a man.
      • Don't call me names, you foul, yellow-bellied, petty sneak.
      • Other bahiae specimens reported in the literature (but not examined by me) were apparently yellow-bellied, including the type specimen from ‘Bahia’ in the Berlepsch collection.
      • Mammals with similar elasticity patterns are often not related; reindeer and yellow-bellied marmots have different vital rates, but nearly identical summe d elasticities.

Definition of yellow-belly in US English:

yellow-belly

nounˈjɛloʊ ˌbɛliˈyelō ˌbelē
informal
  • 1A coward.

    胆小鬼,懦夫

    I was serious about my stand against the war and was not just a yellow-belly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And the fact that Stevie can sign, seal, and deliver on the Lakers front court to the tune of a triple-double does not bode well for the yellow-bellies.
    • As film historian Thomas Doherty notes, the ‘slanderous central conceit’ of High Noon was that ‘the Old West was packed with no-account yellow-bellies.’
    • Forget the yellow-bellies; the overcrowded prisons offer myriad low cost Rambo wannabes.
    • Of course, that don't mean having a revolution every day like them yellow-bellies and Bolsheviki, or every time some job-holder does something he ain't got no business to do.
    • Okay I'm going to teach you yellow-bellies to kick and punch.
  • 2Any of various animals with yellow underparts.

    黄腹动物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (E. flaviventris) has the most colorful belly of the eastern group, but don't be mislead; an empid with a yellow belly is not necessarily a yellow-belly.
    • It's amazing how fast you can fin when a yellow-belly sea snake is chasing your tail!
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