milquetoast，英语单词，主要用作名词，作名词时译为“胆小者，懦夫；意志薄弱的人”。

milquetoast /ˈmɪlkˌtəʊst/

1.N a meek, submissive, or timid person 懦夫; 胆小鬼 [美国英语]

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.这样的成就绝难出自一位意志薄弱者，而索科尔——正如我所见，一个充满动力的高管——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.作者坚持认为，伏尔泰是个胆小如鼠的势利小人，他过于追求自己的名誉和舒适的生活，因此不会说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，有些因素在影响它将描述的东西大众化，它如何嵌入那些不成熟的共识和其客观评论的特性。