Even bejewelled dowagers sound like scolding parents from 2018, with one calling a daughter gutless for failing to ask Qianlong for a promotion.
即使珠光宝气的贵妇,也像2018年的家长,责怪女儿没胆量,没能向乾隆提出晋升。
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Don't listen to these gutless environmental sissies!
别听那些胆小鬼环保娘娘腔的屁话!
VOA Special 2018年9月合集
He called it " gutless" and launched into an extended criticism of the newspaper.
他称其为“胆小”,并对该报发起了广泛的批评。
老友记第二季
OK, you're whiney, you are, you're obsessive, you are insecure, you're, you're gutless, you know, you don't ever, you don't just sort of seize the day, you know.
好,你爱发牢骚… 爱钻牛角尖,没有安全感… 你根本就没种。你从来不知道怎么把握时机。
PBS访谈商业系列
Instead, evidently, your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your low-level employees who don't have the money for a fancy P.R. firm to defend themselves. It's gutless leadership.