| 词组 | chary |
| 释义 | chary Chary is often followed by of and somewhat less often by about: • My business experience has taught me to be chary of committing anything of a confidential nature to any more concrete medium than speech —William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929 • I wanted my father's good opinion because he was chary of his compliments —The Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 • ... should make us chary of allowing new meanings to obscure one of the fundamental properties of space —Bertrand Russell, Foundations of Geometry, 1897 • For the most part, Beard is chary about expressing his own opinion very directly —John M. Mathews, American Political Science Rev., December 1946 • ... he himself was chary about the psychoanalytical technique in serious mental illness —Alfred Kazin, N.Y. Times Mag., 6 May 1956 Occasionally, chary may be found with as to, in, or with: • ... the cautious and taciturn Yankees were sometimes very chary as to their answers —F. Eliot, Atlantic, July 1953 • Such persons are usually expected to be chary in the exercise of their real power —Ralph Linton, The Cultural Background of Personality, 1945 • I am always very chary with percentages ... I like short words and vulgar fractions —Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Time, 19 Oct. 1953 |
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