diffident

She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenance and an innocent, diffident manner.

她体格无力而多肉，一张坦率真诚的面容，一副天真无邪而羞怯神气。

Dick was always diffident when it came to staff matters, and not been able to summon up the gumption to bang the table.

遇到手下的人事问题时，迪克总是缺乏信心。他不能拿出气概，一锤定音。

The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation .

第二天，他又接到两起申诉，一起来自一个男的，用温和的语气提出意见。

Even really talented people are made to feel diffident and nervous when they are queuing in a long line for an interview.

排着长队等待面试时，哪怕是最有能力的人也会觉得没有信心，紧张。

But in a recent interview with Fox News , the president sounded diffident and nervous about his economic policy .

但最近在接受福克斯新闻网采访的时候，奥巴马总统对自己的经济政策出言谨慎，听起来充满了心虚和不安。

The Communist Party is diffident about laying claim to any development model that other countries might copy.

共产党在宣称自身拥有可供其他国家效仿的发展模式上十分低调。

How such arguments are received will depend on how well the diffident former academic is able to make his nation's case.

上述论调在多大程度上能为人们所接受，将取决于这位羞怯的前学者能多么有力地为自己的国家进行辩护。

"I've had experience enough, " said Hurstwood blandly, but he felt a little diffident about referring to Fitzgerald and Moy.

“我有足够的经验，”赫斯渥淡淡地说道，但他没敢提及费莫酒店。

This boy, still midget but already diffident with a kind of rangy ease, is the best of the six.

这个男孩是那六个中打得最棒的，他个头虽然不高，但瘦长的四肢已使他羞怯中显出几分自如。

We be placed in an inside Chinese language to turn the extreme diffident ages.

我们处在一个中国文化极度缺乏自信的时代。

When helping deal with a populist anti-corruption campaign this summer he seemed diffident.

今年夏天在协助处理一桩民粹主义的反腐运动时，他显得缺乏自信。

Aristocratic languor, critics thought, made him too diffident sometimes on the field.

高贵的慵懒，批评家的思想，使他有时候在球场上与众不同。

He looked diffident, and amiable, and independent, and he, too, was evidently English.

他显得忸怩羞怯，又和蔼又任性，显然他也是一个英国人。

Yet, as in other areas, President Barack Obama's defence of his policy has been strangely diffident.

然而，就像在其它领域那样，总统巴拉克•奥巴马（BarackObama）对其政策的辩护一直奇怪地缺乏自信。

If you are diffident or inattentive to the balls of life, there is every chance you could be wounded or may lose the game.

如果对于生活向你投掷的球，你胆怯或者漫不经心，每一次你都会受伤或者输球。

Think of your self two years ago. Write about how you are diffident now.

想一想两年前的你自己。写出与你现在是怎样不同的。

Even relationships within the family are managed by the 1, 200-person IHA, which has not been diffident in sharing its views.

即便是这个家族的内部关系也由1200人组成的宫内厅打理，而这个组织并不缺少公开自己观点的自信。

Japanese officials have been more diffident about the agreement and insist their country's sanctions remain in place.

日本官方对朝鲜的态度信心不足，坚称将继续对其制裁。

The epistemological imperialism of modern science is a far cry from the cautious empiricism of Bacon and the diffident wisdom of Newton.

现代科学的认识论的帝国主义，与谨慎的实证主义的培根和缺乏自信的智慧的牛顿相距甚远。

Corporal punishment makes a child diffident , withdrawn, and pessimistic.

体罚使小孩变得自卑、自闭、性格悲观。