1. The authorities have been too pusillanimous in merely condemning the violence. 当局过于懦弱，仅仅谴责了这场暴力行为。
2. The pusillanimous elephant ran away at the sight of the mouse. 胆小的大象一看见老鼠就跑掉了。
3. His failure to help the old man who was being robbed was pusillanimous. 他的胆怯促使他未能援助被行抢的老人。
4. And those old favorites, your friends and mine: sycophantic, phlegmatic, and, of course, top of the bill - pusillanimous. 而那些过去最受宠的人——你我共同的朋友们，其中有拍马屁的，冷漠的：当然，最招人注意的还有那些胆小怕事的。
5. It is time the Fund's top brass said so publicly and, by refusing to lend more without a deal on debt, pushed Europe's pusillanimous politicians into doing the right thing. IMF的高层官员是时候发表公开声明，拒绝贷款给没有计划处理债务的国家来促使欧洲胆怯的政客们走正确的路、做正确的事。
