reticence

[美國]/'retɪs(ə)ns/
[英國]/'rɛtəsns/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

n. 沉默寡言
Word Forms

短語搭配

maintain reticence

保持沉默

uncharacteristic reticence

不尋常的緘默

overcome reticence

克服緘默

deep reticence

深深的沉默

sense of reticence

沉默感

例句

His reticence is more revealing than his speech.

他的沉默所表露的要勝過他的言詞。

He breaks out of his normal reticence and tells me the whole story.

他打破了平時一貫沈默寡言的習慣,把事情原原本本都告訴了我。

Some reckon its failure to unearth masses of new information is down to a mix of mendacious reticence on the part of key witnesses and the pusillanimity of their inquisitors.

一些人承認,沒能發現大量的新信息是由於關鍵證人的虛假的沉默和審判者的膽怯。

Their reticence and tenseness seemed to melt away as they petted the stray, and our sessions were relaxed and open.

他們摸拍這隻無主的貓時,素日的緘默和緊張似乎融化了,療程進行得既輕鬆,又坦率。

He maintained a reticence about his personal life.

他對自己的個人生活保持沉默。

Her reticence made it difficult to understand her true feelings.

她的緘默使人難以理解她的真實感受。

The politician's reticence on the issue raised suspicions.

政界人士對這個問題的沉默引起了懷疑。

She spoke with reticence, carefully choosing her words.

她說話時保持着沉默,謹慎選擇措辭。

His reticence in meetings often led to misunderstandings.

他在會議上的沉默經常導致誤解。

The company's reticence to disclose financial information worried investors.

公司不願透露財務信息讓投資者感到擔憂。

Despite her reticence, she eventually opened up about her past.

儘管她一開始保持沉默,但最終她開誠佈公談起了自己的過去。

His reticence to share his ideas hindered the team's progress.

他不願分享自己的想法阻礙了團隊的進展。

The author's reticence to give interviews left fans curious about her inspiration.

作家不願接受採訪讓粉絲們對她的靈感產生了好奇。

The reticence of the witness in court raised doubts about the validity of the testimony.

法庭上證人的沉默引起了人們對證詞有效性的懷疑。

原聲例句

But Mrs. Tarleton had no such reticences.

可是塔爾頓夫人卻沒有這樣的忌諱。

來源: Gone with the Wind

Leave us some dignity, some reticence to remember out of our marriage.

最好給我們留下一點尊嚴,一點默默的思索,作爲我們這幾年結婚生活的紀念。

來源: Gone with the Wind

This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.

這就是對於艾希禮的沉默和古怪行爲的解釋。

來源: Gone with the Wind

There was a little more reticence now than formerly in Thomasin's manner towards her cousin.

託瑪茜現在對他堂兄的態度上,說話比以前要少。

來源: Returning Home

Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power.

她和荒原人在一起,平時總保持沉默寡言,因爲她自覺具有高人一等的交際能力。

來源: Returning Home

Although she'd proven herself with her past assignments, Bly still faced reticence from her editors.

儘管布萊已經用她過去的任務證明了自己,但她仍然面臨編輯的沉默。

來源: Women Who Changed the World

His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.

凡是這位牧師爲了維護體面不便暢言的地方都被攻擊爲虛僞,凡是他鋪陳贅述的章節則率直地被叫作謊言,作者對某些事情保持緘默則乾脆被魏特布瑞希特-羅特霍爾茲斥之爲背叛。

來源: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

How irresolute did those (earliest rulers) appear, showing (by their reticence) the importance which they set upon their words!

悠兮其貴言。

來源: Tao Te Ching

Soon he detected in her a wonderful reticence.

很快,他發現她有一種奇妙的沉默寡言。

來源: The Room with a View (Part 1)

And a reticence to talk about mental health in front of the boss may be unnecessary. Executives are people, too.

或許不必在老闆面前對心理健康避而不談。高管們也是人。

來源: The Economist (Summary)

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