Reluctant
[rɪ'lʌkt(ə)nt] or [rɪ'lʌktənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not eager; 'foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways'; 'fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him' .
(adj.) disinclined to become involved; 'they were usually reluctant to socialize'; 'reluctant to help' .
沙琳編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.
(a.) Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.
整理:丽纳
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Unwilling, loath, averse, backward, disinclined, indisposed, not disposed.
阿玛莉亚整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Averse, unwilling, disinclined, loth, backward
ANT:Willing, inclined, eager, forward
錄入:罗兰
解釋/意思:
adj. struggling or striving against: unwilling: disinclined.—v.i. Rēluct′ to make resistance.—ns. Reluc′tance Reluc′tancy state of being reluctant: unwillingness.—adv. Reluc′tantly.—v.i. Reluc′tāte to be reluctant.—n. Reluctā′tion repugnance.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I said it (people often do so, in such cases) like a rather reluctant concession to truth and justice;--as if I wanted to deny it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I have lifted it for a moment, even in this narrative, with a reluctant hand, and dropped it gladly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I felt reluctant to be present, when Mr. Peggotty first met his sister and Ham; and made Mr. Omer my excuse for lingering behind. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- True,' was Sissy's reluctant admission. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- To speak the truth, I thought none in Yorkshire knew better than yourself why he was reluctant to come home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A sister to whom I have confided so much, aunt, will not be reluctant to confide in me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- You have no goodwill towards this Wrayburn,' said Bradley, coming to the name in a reluctant and forced way, as if he were dragged to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Much better, said Jerry, not unlike a reluctant witness at the establishment in question, than I, as a honest tradesman, wish to know the Bailey. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I seized her reluctant hand--Dear friend, I cried, misguided victim, do you not intend to escape with me? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He gave a reluctant assent to this. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The old man answered with a reluctant nod. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She was reluctant to yield there, where he wanted her, to yield as it were her very identity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- One of them she knew, a tall, slow, reluctant woman with a weight of fair hair and a pale, long face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And may reluctant admiration acknowledge that he electrified her with two words? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He sprang through a gate into a field, dragging the reluctant Pompey after him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- One thing after another had been torn from his reluctant grasp, and now it seemed as if his life itself was to crown the measure of repayment. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- And thus our youth, having been educated only in that simple music which, as we said, inspires temperance, will be reluctant to go to law. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I'll try,' returned the reluctant whelp, 'if it isn't a long un. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- And also they were dragged into a reluctant attempt to define their relations to Old-World politics in some other terms than those of mere aloofness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So secretive and active and anxious the young woman seemed, so reluctant, slinking, the young man. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Sir James Hall of Dunglass was a reluctant convert to Hutton's system of geology. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I never had a home, I never had brothers or sisters; I must and will have them now: you are not reluctant to admit me and own me, are you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Elizabeth tried to join in her father's pleasantry, but could only force one most reluctant smile. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He did not care himself about spending money, and was not reluctant to give it. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But, here the Irrepressible skirmished into the conflict, dragging the reluctant form of Mr Sampson after her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He gave a reluctant 'Yes. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Ye-es, is Mr. Weevle's reluctant admission. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But he was reluctant to try it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The woman seemed desirous, yet reluctant, to speak, and answered, in low, mysterious tone. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Do you fancy me then so humble and so void of taste as to buy with my money the reluctant embraces of any woman breathing? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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