reluctantly

1 I remember sitting on the verandah listening to “Now That We Found Love” by Heavy D & The Boyz and watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind.

2 She was obliged, reluctantly, to stop in the next village and seek shelter for the night.

3 The man requests to interview them privately and the headmistress reluctantly agrees.

4 Finally he strode home reluctantly, with his poor head full of visions.

最后，他恋恋不舍地大步走回家，可怜的脑袋里充满了幻想。

5 He reluctantly releases her, following as she walks through the trees, reading bits of verse on branches and trunks.

6 Sir Bors the misogynist had reluctantly consented to fight for the Queen, if nobody else could be found.

7 I wandered reluctantly among the children's books.

我不情愿地在儿童读物间徘徊。

8 Belet began reluctantly but was soon piling her plate high with cookies, tarts, and slices of cake.

9 Then, reluctantly, reopened it to slip in a dollar.

10 Some little boys had come up on the steps and were looking into the hall; when I told them who had arrived they went reluctantly away.

11 Thomas reluctantly followed orders like the rest of the boys and was sharing a picnic table on the south side of the Homestead with Chuck and Winston.

12 I dragged out the call and came to the table reluctantly.

13 Even when she was ill she had hobbled to work, even when any of my siblings was ill she had gone to work, reluctantly.

14 Piggy grinned reluctantly, pleased despite himself at even this much recognition.

15 Jacob took a piece of bread and reluctantly reached for the cheese.

16 I parted with them reluctantly, but I knew that this, too, was now normal.

17 He watched her every move and when she left the room, his eyes allowed her reluctantly to go.

18 Exactly one month before the Egypt Game began in the Professor’s backyard she had come, very reluctantly, to live in the shabby splendor of an old California-Spanish apartment house called the Casa Rosada.

19 Those who could work were not taken away, and so, reluctantly, my father and I showed up for work details every morning.

20 Eventually the water gets cold, and since Eve already ignored both Zack’s and Beth’s knocks, I reluctantly drain the water and towel off.

1 不情愿

unwilling dainty tardy grudging reluctance with bad grace under protest in no hurry afraid sticky reluctant ashamed unwillingly loathly reluctation against better judgment in no hurry to V disinclined unwillingness disinclination

2 无可奈何

willy-nilly sod law

3 不情愿地

with bad grace under protest unwillingly loathly against better judgment

4 勉强

narrow mechanic forced reluctant unwilling strained dainty constrained tardy reticent grudging left-footed farfetched uneager just barely scant reluctance reticence with bad grace constrain oneself only just near stiff contrived labored begrudging uncheerful nearly grudgingly unwillingly forcedly loathly constraint unwillingness by constraint

5 勉强地

scant with bad grace nearly grudgingly unwillingly forcedly loathly by constraint

6 无可奈何地

willy-nilly