ad. timidly膽怯地。 △R.III.3.5.55 (56):“Because,my lord,we would have had you heard(i.e. we would have wished you to have heard)/ Thetraitor speak,and timorously confess / The mannerand the purpose of his treasons.”因為，大人，我們本來想讓你能夠親自聽到這個叛賊自己說話，膽怯地供出他那些叛國罪行的經過和目的。