Unwillingness
[ʌn'wɪlɪŋnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the trait of being unwilling; 'his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made'; 'in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton'.
昌西整理--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We must be going with the rest,' observed Mrs Lammle, rising with a show of unwillingness, amidst a general dispersal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The remissness of our people in paying taxes is highly blameable, the unwillingness to pay them is still more so. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- After another silence, the husband of the absent woman, turning to me again, answered me with his usual grumbling unwillingness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Why else should he have shewn such unwillingness to accept your invitation here? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Observant of his unwillingness to mar the effect by opening it again, Defarge said, Go on, Jacques. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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