Diffidence

例句:

• I presently asked, with increasing diffidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This lady received the visitors with a mixture of ceremony and diffidence quite English. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As he had shown no diffidence on the subject, I ventured on the liberty of asking him the question, when he stood before me, dusting his hands. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Mr. Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning Old Nick's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• This naturally introduced a panegyric from Jane on his diffidence, and the little value he put on his own good qualities. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Miss Darcy, though with a diffidence which marked her little in the habit of giving invitations, readily obeyed. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I asked, with awkward diffidence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Her look of confidence and diffidence contrasted with Ursula's sensitive expectancy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The first feelings of diffidence overcome, Caroline soon felt glad to talk with Miss Keeldar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He also recommends it to us, To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• My father was in the mean time overjoyed, and, in the bustle of preparation, only observed in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Caroline advanced to the mighty matron with some sense of diffidence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• What affectation of diffidence was this at first? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Without scruplewithout apologywithout much apparent diffidence, Mr. Elton, the lover of Harriet, was professing himself _her_ lover. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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