reticent
雅思,GRE,1
英['retɪs(ə)nt]
|美['rɛtɪsnt]
日语:寡黙
法语:réticent
德语:zurückhaltend
韩语:말이 없는
俄语:reticente
牛津词典
adj.
- 寡言少语;不愿与人交谈;有保留
unwilling to tell people about things
- She was shy and reticent.
她羞怯而寡言少语。 - He was extremely reticent about his personal life.
他对自己的个人生活讳莫如深。
同、反义词
同义词:
adj.
cagey,discreet,reserved,quiet,restrained
双语例句
- She was morose, pale, and reticent.
她面色苍白、忧郁孤僻,并且沉默寡言。
- She is so reticent about her achievements
她对自己的成就缄口不言。
- Mrs. Smith, normally a reticent woman, took it upon herself to write to the President.
通常都很沉默的史密斯夫人决定自己给总统写信。
- He has become even more reticent since then.
从此,他变得更沉默了。
- Google wisely held its tongue, but its supporters were not so reticent.
谷歌非常明智地选择了沉默,但它的支持者们却难掩心中的愤怒。
- Banks have been reticent to provide services to companies in the burgeoning marijuana industry because the legality is murky.
由于法律界定的模糊,银行一直对向蓬勃发展的大麻产业提供服务持谨慎态度。
- For understandable reasons Mr Obama has been reticent about the scale of young black alienation in the US.
出于可理解的原因,奥巴马对美国黑人青年的异化程度一直保持沉默。
- Don't get reticent because you're good at your current role.
不要因为你擅长现在的工作就沉默不语、停滞不前。
- It was a matter upon which he was reticent. You'll have to be more careful what you say; you really caught her on the raw when you mentioned her first husband.
你以后讲话得更加小心;你提到了她的第一个丈夫,这是她忌讳的事。
- He was reticent on his plans.
对于他的计划他是沉默的。
- But, although it has been painfully reticent, safe only seems to have bought small slices of Western companies so far.
然而,虽然外管局一直煞费苦心的保持缄默,但似乎迄今仅收购了多家西方企业的一小部分股权。
- In winter, like a reticent old woman, with the waves of bone-chilling wind coming!
冬天像一位不爱说话的老婆婆,随着一阵阵刺骨的寒风来了!
- He was reticent, patrician, bookish, urbane.
他沉默含蓄,雍容华贵,书生气十足,而又温文有礼。
- She remembered how reticent her father had been about his past.
她记得她父亲多么不愿谈起他的过去。
- The mermaid in the deep sea, it is brilliant that no matter how lights on the bankare. debark, what is done? Is a beautiful one interspersed, or a reticent onlooker?
深海中的人鱼,无论岸上灯火如何辉煌。上岸,去做什么?一个美丽的点缀,还是一个沉默的旁观者?
- Chinese industry executives attending the show remain reticent to discuss the J-11B program.
正在参观展览的这位中国产业主管对讨论J-11B项目保持沉默。
- They "talk a lot", while Asian students are reticent, she says.
她说,这些学生“有很多话说”,而亚洲的学生则沉默寡言。
- She is a reticent woman.
她是一个缄默的女人。
- He seemed unduly reticent on the subject of his past.
他似乎对他过去的事情讳莫如深。
- After going through endless and reticent long night, the health emitted one's own sound at last: It should break this kind of silence state!
在历经沉默的漫漫长夜之后,身体终于发出了自己的声音:它要打破这种沉默状态!
- To a certain extent, the victim that maintain reticent masses should be grieved and desperate;
在某种程度上,维持沉默的群众是应该悲哀而绝望的牺牲者;
- People that are low in self-confidence tend to be reticent and somewhat anxious.
不自信的人更低调或者有一点容易焦虑。
- Just how much can a polite and reticent people withstand? That is the test for modern China.
现在的问题是,儒雅而沉默的中国人能对此容忍多少,这是对当代中国的一个考验。
- Although I am a rather reticent individual by nature, I made the most of the oral presentations in class. And soon my confidence level soared.
尽管我生性沉默寡言,但我充分利用了课堂上做口头陈述的机会,这使我不久就信心倍增。
- Reticent about one's hope She won't talk about going.
对自己的希望闭口不谈而她却闭口不提走的事。
- It was a matter upon which he was reticent.
这是一个他讳莫如深的话题。
- You have an extra reason to be reticent.
你应该保持沉默还有一个理由。
- I was a little reticent to come over and talk to you.
我没想着要过来跟你说话。
- I am reticent, the ones that because it is thin to float in the heart are sad!
我沉默,因为心上漂着淡淡的忧伤!
- Many in the rising world, of course, welcome a more reticent America.
当然,在日益崛起的国家当中,许多人都欢迎一个更为低调的美国。
语源
mid 19th cent.: from Latin reticent-remaining silent, from the verb reticere, from re-(expressing intensive force) + tacerebe silent