diffident

a diffident manner/smile

畏首畏尾的态度；羞怯的一笑

牛津词典

He was modest and diffident about his own success.

他很谦虚，不愿谈及自己的成功。

牛津词典

[不可数名词]She overcame her natural diffidence and spoke with great frankness.

她克服了胆怯的毛病，非常坦率地说出了自己的想法。

牛津词典

Helen was diffident and reserved.

海伦比较害羞内向。

He has a politely diffident manner.

他的态度是客气中带有羞怯.

《简明英汉词典》

The simulation test can study the movement law of pollutant diffusion under the diffident hydrodynamic condition.

模拟试验能够更好地研究不同水动力条件下污染物的扩散运移规律.

期刊摘选

He was diffident and silent.

他是那么冷淡,那么默默无声.

辞典例句

He is diffident of his success.

他对成功缺乏信心.

辞典例句

She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenances innocent, diffident manner.

那妇人生着一副绵软多肉的体格, 一张坦率开诚的面容,一种天真羞怯的神气.

期刊摘选

He was too diffident to do justice to himself.

他腼腆得使自己的表现不能恰如其分.

辞典例句

I was diffident about saying so.

我不好意思这麽说.

期刊摘选

While they speak softly, they are far from diffident.

他们的声音虽小, 却不含卑下.

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She is diffident about expressing her opinions.

她怯于表述自己的意见.

辞典例句

I am fond of a diffident way which I see you to exhibit.

我喜欢您表现出来的谦卑.

辞典例句

She is a diffident student.

她是位缺乏自信的学生.

期刊摘选

He is diffident about expressing his opinions in the public.

他在公开场合表达自己的意见感到胆怯.

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He is diffident about expressing his opinions.

他对于表达自己的意见感到胆怯.

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He felt a little diffident about asking concerning her success.

他感到有点胆怯,不敢问她是否成功了.

英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

Id be diffident if the men wouldnt differentiate between us all the time.

假如男人们一向区分不出我们两,我就不会那么缺乏自信了.

期刊摘选

We be placed in an inside Chinese language to turn the extreme diffident ages.

我们处在一个中国文化极度缺乏自信的时代.

期刊摘选

Don't be so diffident about your talents.

别对自己的才能如此缺乏信心.

辞典例句

His fault is that he's too diffident.

他的过失是太缺乏自信啦.

辞典例句

The Communist Party is diffident about claim to any development model that other countries might copy.

中国政府对于公布一个其他国家可以参考的发展模式缺乏底气.

期刊摘选

He was to diffident to do justice to himself.

他过于羞怯,不能适当地处理自己.

辞典例句

She was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture.

在对教授的课进行评论时,她有点不太自信.

期刊摘选

He looked diffident, and amiable, and independent, and he, too, was evidently English.

他显得忸怩羞怯, 又和蔼又任性, 显然他也是一个英国人.

辞典例句

Dick was always diffident when to staff matters and not been ableto summonthe gumption tothe table.

遇到手下的人事问题时,迪克总是缺乏信心.他还未能发挥才智,一锤定音.

期刊摘选

In cool weather, serpents do not tempt; they grow diffident, recede and hibernate.

在凉爽的天气里, 蛇是不会出来引诱人的, 它会胆怯 、 退避,还要冬眠.

名作英译部分

I was diffident about [ of ] saying so.

我 不好意思 这么说.

辞典例句

In the diffident manner was nothing of the art of the courtesan.

她羞怯的举止迥然不同于妓女的惺惺作态.

英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹