Hai cercato la traduzione di schroomvalliger da Olandese a Inglese

mijn vriend, de zoon van den kapitein, die mij vroeger geholpen had de vermaningen van mijn geweten te smoren, was thans schroomvalliger dan ik.
my comrade, who had helped to harden me before, and who was the master’s son, was now less forward than i. the first time he spoke to me after we were at yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; i say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melancholy, and shaking his head, he asked me how i did, and telling his father who i was, and how i had come this voyage only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone “young man,” says he, “you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.”

elinor kon moeilijk verwachten, dat sir john schroomvalliger zou zijn in de uiting van zijn vermoedens omtrent haar genegenheid voor edward, dan hij zich getoond had, waar het marianne betrof; van de beide geestigheden genoot de eerste, als nieuwer, en nog speling voor gissingen overlatend, zelfs zijn voorkeur; en sedert edward's bezoek hadden zij nooit samen aan tafel gezeten, zonder dat hij een dronk wijdde aan haar liefsten hartewensch, vergezeld van zooveel beteekenende blikken, en zooveel knikjes en knipoogjes, dat hij de algemeene aandacht op haar vestigde.
elinor could not suppose that sir john would be more nice in proclaiming his suspicions of her regard for edward, than he had been with respect to marianne; indeed it was rather his favourite joke of the two, as being somewhat newer and more conjectural; and since edward's visit, they had never dined together without his drinking to her best affections with so much significancy and so many nods and winks, as to excite general attention.