Reticence
['retɪs(ə)ns] or ['rɛtəsns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
(n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Reserve, taciturnity.
校對:奥菲莉娅
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Reserve, silentness, refrain, repressiveness
ANT:Unreserve, abandon, garrulity, freedom
加文手打
解釋/意思:
n. concealment by silence: reserve in speech—also Ret′icency.—adj. Ret′icent concealing by silence: reserved in speech.
校對:菲利斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There was an emphatic kind of reticence in Mr. Chichely's manner of speaking. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Anything to equal the determined reticence of Mr. Jaggers under that roof I never saw elsewhere, even in him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The Abbot replied with reticence, couldn't say. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The other, ill-contented with this reticence, would have persisted in his questioning, but the old man, seeing this, shut him up sharply. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She showed her usual reticence to her parents, and only said, that if Lydgate had done as she wished he would have left Middlemarch long ago. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There was a little more reticence now than formerly in Thomasin's manner towards her cousin. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I cannot explain myself now, but I will some day, and then you will see I have a good reason for my reticence. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Mr Inspector replied, with due generality and reticence, that it was always more likely that a man had done a bad thing than that he hadn't. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And on the most delicate of all personal subjects, the habit of proud suspicious reticence told doubly. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Because I have strong reasons for such reticence, said the poet coldly; either trust me in all or not at all. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- In spite of her general reticence, she needed some one who would recognize her wrongs. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In his usual mode of demanding an opinion (he had not reticence to wait till it was voluntarily offered) he asked, Were you interested? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In no duty towards others is there more need of reticence and self-restraint. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Ah, you didn't mean me to know it; I call that ungenerous reticence. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:理查德