milquetoast

milquetoast /ˈmɪlkˌtəʊst/

1.N a meek, submissive, or timid person 懦夫; 膽小鬼 [美國英語] ^[1] 

You don't get those kinds of results by being a milquetoast, and Sokol — as driven an executive as I've met — rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.這樣的成就絕難出自一位意志薄弱者，而索科爾——正如我所見，一個充滿動力的高管——曾激怒了很多人。

Voltaire, he insists, was a milquetoast careerist, too concerned with his own reputation and his comfortable life to say anything truly unsettling.作者堅持認為，伏爾泰是個膽小如鼠的勢利小人，他過於追求自己的名譽和舒適的生活，因此不會説出任何令人不安的真相。

But there's something disturbing about the way it flattens everything it describes, how it embodies milquetoast consensus, and the nature of its objective language.但是，有些因素在影響它將描述的東西大眾化，它如何嵌入那些不成熟的共識和其客觀評論的特性。 ^[1]