reticent
英 [ˈretɪsnt]
美 [ˈretɪsnt]
adj. 寡言少语; 不愿与人交谈; 有保留
Collins.1 / BNC.18407 / COCA.17152
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。
- She was shy and reticent.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 沉默寡言的;不与人交谈的
Someone who isreticentdoes not tell people about things.- 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。
- She is so reticent about her achievements...
英英释义
adj
- reluctant to draw attention to yourself
- cool and formal in manner
- temperamentally disinclined to talk
双语例句
- 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! - 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? - 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。 - 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。 - He was reticent on his plans.
对于他的计划他是沉默的。 - 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! - She is so reticent about her achievements
她对自己的成就缄口不言。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。