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reluctancy

/ri-luhk-tuhns/US // rɪˈlʌk təns //UK // (rɪˈlʌktəns) //

勉强,不情愿,勉强性,不愿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
    • : Electricity. the resistance to magnetic flux offered by a magnetic circuit, determined by the permeability and arrangement of the materials of the circuit.

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Examples

  • Or he may deprive himself of some lesser advantages in life by his reluctancy in putting himself forward.

  • His letter, however, showed his half-hidden reluctancy towards giving up the faithful old dog.

  • The water-lily closes, but With wonderful reluctancy; As if it troubled her to shut Her door of welcome to the bee.

  • A biographer records her death from smallpox when twenty-five years old, "to the unspeakable reluctancy of her relatives."

  • Hiding his reluctancy, Cooper left his seat and advanced toward the doorway.