Diffidence
['dɪfɪd(ə)ns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
(n.) Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Distrust, doubt.[2]. Bashfulness, timidity, sheepishness, extreme modesty, distrust of one's self, lack or want of self-reliance.
整理:默娜
例句/造句/用法:
- I presently asked, with increasing diffidence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- This lady received the visitors with a mixture of ceremony and diffidence quite English. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Mr. Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning Old Nick's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- This naturally introduced a panegyric from Jane on his diffidence, and the little value he put on his own good qualities. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Miss Darcy, though with a diffidence which marked her little in the habit of giving invitations, readily obeyed. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I asked, with awkward diffidence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Her look of confidence and diffidence contrasted with Ursula's sensitive expectancy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The first feelings of diffidence overcome, Caroline soon felt glad to talk with Miss Keeldar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He also recommends it to us, To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- 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. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Caroline advanced to the mighty matron with some sense of diffidence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- What affectation of diffidence was this at first? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Without scruplewithout apologywithout much apparent diffidence, Mr. Elton, the lover of Harriet, was professing himself _her_ lover. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
校對:赛克