reticent

1 Egyptologists are habitually reticent about each other’s work, and will no doubt wait to embrace this especially bold claim, but Mr Reeves’s paper has already aroused keen interest.

2 Lower down, the middle of the voice felt correspondingly more reticent.

3 Unlike many attempts by various forms of the media to mark the novel's golden jubilee, Smith's was not another futile quest to track down the famously reticent author and squeeze an interview out of her.

4 Yet it's a link he's unwilling to force, so unwilling that Gravity of Center starts to feel frustratingly reticent about making a theatrical case for itself.

5 When Nell shows up, she makes a bad impression: reticent and sullen.

6 Unsurprisingly, Mr. Jay proves a hugely entertaining guide, and as generous about his professional inspirations as he is reticent about his own life.

7 Truitt’s work remains reticent, if not indifferent, to all of that.

8 French theater is elitist and reticent to change, she said.

9 It’s a reticent crowd pleaser, a big, well-groomed musical that never seems to be courting a standing ovation.

10 A senseless tragedy, it was called, and she was described as a reticent and prematurely aged survivor.

报纸上说这是一场无谓的悲剧，而她被说成是一名早熟而寡言的幸存者。

11 But this particular historical epoch can inspire even the most reticent of us into unexpected activities and make even the most purely emotional acts resonate with political implication.

12 And like many Estonians, he is reticent and modest.

和许多爱沙尼亚人类似，他沉默寡言而且谦逊有礼。

13 People are very reticent to talk about their serious mental illnesses.

14 The dissimilarity means that there is an insistent and absorbing tension to their exchanges, which are neither reticent nor flowery.

15 No one could elicit any response out of the reticent little girl.

没有人能从那个沉默的小女孩身上套出任何回答。

16 It’s not that she’s a reticent singer, but she exudes humility.

17 He paints fascinating portraits of the “reticent, inaccessible” Gardner and of the meticulous Lamphere, who stayed on track though constantly challenged by his superiors.

18 As one story leads to another, though, Ana grows more reticent to tell them, and the intern finds he can’t back away.

19 And she wanted that for me even if I was always a little naturally reticent.

20 Crisp, Financial Times, 2007 "The dancers have an exceptional poise and clarity, if dramatically a little reticent."

1 缄默的

silent mum reserved retiring tacit tongue-tied unpronounced mute unspoken uncommunicative

2 沉默

dark quiet silent mute muted unspoken tacit wordless tight-lipped voiceless incommunicable tight-mouthed silently still reserve peace silence mum stillness dumb hush extinguish tongue-tie drum down tie off drag in your rope close word quiescent resting inexpressive unexpressive unvocal quiescency shell reticence quiescence reticency

3 缄默

silent mum reserved retiring tacit tongue-tied unpronounced reticence squash muzzle mute silence uncommunicative

4 沉默寡言的

retired withdrawn close-mouthed uncommunicative taciturn of few words strange tight-lipped buttoned-up incommunicative brief silent reserved

5 含蓄的

inner pregnant underlying implicit implied veiled connotative undemonstrative implicative seminal

6 有保留

qualified guarded

7 不愿意

unwilling loath indisposed undisposed undesirous loathful loathly reticence averse loth nill disincline reluct hate indispose

8 有节制的

moderate modest controlled reserved sober low-key understated contained abstinent well-disciplined abstemious contd.

9 寡言少语

quiet reserved monosyllabic uncommunicative reserve

10 有节制

moderate modest controlled reserved sober low-key understated contained abstinent well-disciplined abstemious contd. writ small

11 寡言的

silent self-contained tight-mouthed

12 有保留的

reserved

13 勉强的

narrow mechanic forced reluctant unwilling strained dainty constrained tardy grudging left-footed farfetched uneager

14 不愿意的

unwilling loath indisposed undisposed undesirous loathful averse loth

15 含蓄

inner pregnant underlying implicit implied veiled connotative undemonstrative implicative connotation reticence diffidently reserve pregnancy implication seminal comprehension suppression inference reticency imply connote

16 沉默寡言

strange tight-lipped buttoned-up incommunicative reticence withdrawn taciturn withdrawal brief silent reserved uncommunicative

17 勉强

narrow mechanic forced reluctant unwilling strained dainty constrained tardy grudging left-footed farfetched uneager just barely reluctantly scant reluctance reticence with bad grace constrain oneself only just

18 沉默的

dark quiet silent mute muted unspoken tacit wordless tight-lipped voiceless incommunicable tight-mouthed close word mum dumb quiescent resting inexpressive unexpressive unvocal