diffidence
['difidəns]
n. 无自信, 内向, 羞怯
例句与用法：
It is with diffidence and hesitation that I approach this work.
我是带著懦怯和犹豫接近这部作品的。
n.
缺乏自信, 懦怯; 羞怯[U]
diffidence
同义词：
shyness | timidity | abashment | timorousness | coyness | bashfulness | modesty | sheepishness | demureness | self-consciousness | backwardness | doubtfulness | constraint | silence | hesitancy | reserve | reticence | quietness | self-distrust | self-doubt |
反义词：
confidence | assurance |
词义辨析：
同义:
n.缺乏自信, 羞怯
timidity
timorousness
bashfulness
shyness
abashment
coyness
demureness
sheepishness
doubtfulness
backwardness
modesty
self-consciousness
同义参见:
silence
constraint
反义:
n.无自信; 内向; 客气
confidence
assurance
反义参见:
self-confidence
diffidence['difidəns]n.1.■胆怯，畏缩，踌躇，犹豫；羞怯；缺乏自信，不相信自己的能力、价值或合理2.■谦虚谨慎，谦逊3.■[古语]不信任，怀疑
diffidencediffidence[ˈdifidəns]n.1.■羞怯, 缺乏自信2.■谦虚with nervous diffidence提心吊胆地He failed through diffidence.他因缺乏自信而失败。
diffidence
■Great Britain at the turn of the 19th century had been marked by similar diffidence, despair and recrimination when Germany and the US were emerging on the world scene.
19世纪初，当德国和美国开始在世界舞台上崛起时，英国表现出同样的症状：缺乏自信、绝望、一遭到指责就反唇相讥。
■The scientists of the early twentieth century were in no mood for such scrupulous diffidence.
20世纪初的科学家们对牛顿这样缺乏信心小心谨慎态度毫无情绪。
■The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.
一个人甘愿自己被侮辱、被抢劫、被欺骗、被剥削,这或许是一位神在人群中感到的胆怯。
■66. The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded,robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.
一个人甘愿自己被侮辱、被抢劫、被欺骗、被剥削，这或许是一位神在人群中感到的胆怯。
■On the one hand, you shouldn't be diffidence, on the other hand, you mustn't be too extroversion.
一方面你不应当拘束，另一方面也不要太过外向。
■What do you want?' I asked, with awkward diffidence.
什么事呀?”我问，既尴尬又不安。
■He had never thought of his sweetheart as of so superior a being, and he was instantly taken with a feeling of diffidence
他从来没有想到他的爱人会这样的华贵，竟使他的内心立刻产生了一种自惭形秽的感觉。
■They tried to be lively and willing, but there was an air of hang-dog diffidence about the place.
他们想提起精神，做出乐观的样子。 但是这个地方有着一种使人内心自惭而羞于抬头的气氛。
■His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy.
他因为胆怯，所以遇到这种迫切问题，自己便拿不定主张，总是相信我的话，因此这次一切都做得很顺利。
■He failed through diffidence.
他因缺乏自信而失败。
■He went to the stage and made a speech with diffidence.
他缺乏自信的走上台去考试*大演讲。
■His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case,his reliance on mine made every thing easy.
他胆怯，遇到这种迫切问题，自己便拿不定主张，总是相信我的话，因此这次一切都做得很顺利。
■He has diffidence in expressing his opinions
他表达意见时缺乏自信。
■He spoke with the diffidence of a man who knew how slight a thing would overset the delicate organisation of the mind, and yet with the confidence of a man who had slowly won his assurance out of personal endurance and distress.
他说话时不大自信，因为他深知心灵的结构很微妙，即使最轻微的活动也能把它推翻，同时也十分自信，因为他亲身承受过苦难，逐渐产生了把握。
■they have their own personality all.active or diffidence,and also active and diffidence.
但我认为不同的人有不同的特色，
■For I am a little diffidence I want to enjoy the hankered feeling.
但是现在一些开朗的活泼的女孩无视这种观点，她们勇敢地去追求自己喜欢的男生。
■Mr. Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning 'Old Nick's.'
克朗彻先生觉得有点扫兴，解释说他指的是“老撒旦”。
■Often its source is diffidence, and its cure lies in the growth of selfrestpect.
原因往往是缺少自信，对症的药是培养自尊心。
■This naturally introduced a panegyric from Jane on his diffidence， and the little value he put on his own good qualities.
吉英听了这话，自然又赞美起他的虚心来，赞美他虽然具有了许多优美的品质，可并不自以为了不起。
■For I am a little diffidence ,I want to enjoy the hankered feeling.
因为我有一点害羞，喜欢被爱的感觉。
■so I said with some diffidence: “It would be an accommodation to me if you could wait some days for the money.
因此我迟迟疑疑地说：“要是你们能等两天再结账，就帮了我的忙了。
■Thus, one or more myths of China grew also in Italy, as in the rest of Europe, and we can present some opinions, from the prevalence of an unconditioned admiration to diffidence.
因此，一种或多种关于中国的传说就如在欧洲其他国家一样在意大利滋生出来。我们将介绍几种观点，其中从无条件的赞美到苛刻的批判都有。
■As a result Heath rarely exhibited Nixon's crippling diffidence
因此，希思很少表现出尼克松那种郁郁寡欢。
■farmers maintained a certain proud and wary reserve that might be seen as diffidence, in the presence of citizens they could buy ahd sell.
在与他们做生意的城里人面前，他们坚持着的某种尊严和小心翼翼的矜持，可能被看作畏怯。
■In Beijing, pride jostles with insecurity;studied diffidence sits alongside brisk self-confidence.
在北京，自豪感与不安全感交织在一起，刻意的谨慎与强烈的自信同时存在。
■There's a great deal of modesty and diffidence in my world.
在我的世界里，有着许多谦逊和缺乏自信。
■She overcame her natural diffidence and spoke with great frankness.
她克服了胆怯的毛病，非常坦率地说出了自己的想法。
■Miss Darcy, though with a diffidence which marked her little in the habit of giving invitations, readily obeyed.Mrs.
她怕舅父母追三问四，很想走开，所以她一听完他们把彬格莱赞扬了一番以后，便赶快去换衣服。
■Brander,” said Jennie, all her diffidence dissolved by sympathy.
她的一切羞怯都被同情溶解了。
■The outer crust of her life, all of her natural diffidence and reserve, was torn away
她的生活的外壳，她的一切天生的羞怯和庄重，全撕破了。
■Her diffidence, the feeling of deprivation in the point of view, promised to protect him from any consequence. Most of the many women he had known had been picked for their lack of self-esteem.
她缺乏自信，对她来说就是担心失去工作，这就使他不用为此事的后果担忧，他认识的许多女人大都是因为她们缺乏自信才被弄到手的。
■She met girls of her own age, who looked at her as if with contempt for her diffidence.
她见到和她年纪相仿的女孩，她们打量着她，似乎对她的畏缩神气有些瞧不起。
■a feeling of diffidence about doing something.
对于做某件事情没有自信。
■diffidence about self promotion.
对自己的提升缺乏自信。
■Not unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself.
就任之初，我并非不知道我的能力薄弱，而且我自己的经历更使我缺乏自信，这在别人看来，恐怕更是如此。
■B majored in Chinese studies was his good friend, B introduced that oriental formality and diffidence was seldom his style, instead he was known as rather arbitrary and relaxed.
巴介绍说他很少有东方式的拘谨和内向，是个很随意放松的人。
■It doesn’t help that his apprentice, Johnny Weeks, is a troublemaker with the measured diffidence of a French waiter and the volatility of a pit-bull terrier.
并别出心裁地提出了检查大便和远离电视、电脑等举措对于减肥的重要性，纠正了大众对节食的认识误区。
■Afraid and person association , disgust a person have another, feel nervous or uneasiness at the others in front diffidence heart.
怕与人交往，厌恶人多，在他人面前无自信心，感到紧张或不自在。
■We set his silence down to his diffidence.
我们把他的沉默归之于羞怯。
■I firmly held that his diffidence had a lot to do with his missing thumb.
我固执地认为他的性格里的自卑是和缺失的大拇指有着密不可分的关系的。
■In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain;
我既忍受着羞怯,又忍受着嫉妒的折磨
■It was with diffidence and hesitation that I approached this work
我是带著懦怯和犹豫接近这部作品的
■It is with diffidence and hesitation that I approach this work.
我是带著懦怯和犹豫接近这部作品的。
■I failed her, partly from youth and diffidence but also because of a subconscious reluctance to take my share of another's burden.
我没有这样做，从而使她失望了。这一是因为我年轻、缺乏信心，二是因为我下意识里不清员分担别人的精神负担。
■My character is more diffidence,don't know how to talk with stranger.
我的性格是比较内向，不太善于与陌生人交谈。
■' I asked, with awkward diffidence.
我问，既尴尬又不安。
■with nervous diffidence
提心吊胆地
■To give you up unwillingly shows the depth of my love and my diffidence as well.To give up is to gumble,if lost, it only proves your true love is not on me at all.
放弃只因为爱的太深，爱的太深，才对自己没有把握，要用放弃作赌注，输了，只因为对方不够爱你。
■The disparity between his diffidence and her forthrightness makes the lovers' failure to connect more than a delaying tactic to keep the story churning forward;
是他的不自信和她的直来直去造成的分歧使得这对恋人迟迟无法联系交流，这不是一种推动故事的发展的迂回战术。
■Shyness meekness bashfulness timidity reservation uncommunicativeness timorousness reticence constraint reserve diffidence
沉默,不言语,因惊奇而一言不发