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unwillingly

/uhn-wil-ing/US // ʌnˈwɪl ɪŋ //UK // (ʌnˈwɪlɪŋ) //

不情愿地,不情愿,不甘心,不愿

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
    • : opposed; offering resistance; stubborn or obstinate; refractory: an unwilling captive.

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Examples

  • The key difference between now and 2016, though, is that after the election, a majority of Republicans are still unwilling to accept the result.

  • The public has little use for a brand’s Twitter account if it’s unwilling to get down and dirty with the masses.

  • The good news is that, given the record-breaking early turnout ahead of Election Day, a number of you were unwilling to accept no for an answer and successfully convinced people you care about to participate.

  • The Steelers are willing to evolve, but unwilling to budge from the foundation of their success.

  • I suspect most organizations are in bad shape, but unable or unwilling to face it.

  • Those of us who join the club of gun violence survivors do it unwillingly.

  • But the small boy who was unwillingly dawdling through a series of poses for it, to-day refused all bribes to be good.

  • I was at the front lines of this debate during much of my childhood, unwillingly.

  • And these arrivals are hardly poor Okies pushed back unwillingly; the Plains cities have become magnets for educated people.

  • But he thought of the possible danger to Maxgregor, and he was forced unwillingly to abandon his intention.

  • Clanricarde came in on protection, which was granted unwillingly, and surrendered Loughreagh as a material guarantee.

  • The girl gave way unwillingly, showed Mrs. Floyd into a small study looking on the front garden, and left her.

  • In the following year Loftus was translated to Dublin and forced to resign his deanery, which he did very unwillingly.

  • Let me go free, only give me my liberty, and the secret I have unwillingly discovered shall never pass my lips!