And those old favorites, your friends and mine: sycophantic, phlegmatic, and, of course, top of the bill - pusillanimous.(而那些過去最受寵的人——你我共同的朋友們，其中有拍馬屁的，冷漠的：當然，最招人注意的還有那些膽小怕事的。)

The authorities have been too pusillanimous in merely condemning the violence.(當局過于懦弱，僅僅譴責了這場暴力行為。)

His failure to help the old man who was being robbed was pusillanimous.(他的膽怯促使他未能援助被行搶的老人。)

Pusillanimous managers complain that they're forced to make these cuts by short-term oriented investors.(優柔寡斷的經理人往往抱怨，他們削減此類開支是因為受到目光短淺的投資者的壓力。)

The pusillanimous elephant ran away at the sight of the mouse.(膽小的大象一看見老鼠就跑掉了。)