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wariness

/wair-ee-nis/US // ˈwɛər i nɪs //

戒心,戒备心,防范,戒备心理

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being wary.

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Examples

  • Their wariness, providers and union representatives say, is fueled by online misinformation about the vaccine and historical mistrust of the medical system of which they are a part.

  • This can then cause what Lawhon and those in his field call attraction behavior, which refers to human actions that cause animals to overcome their natural wariness of people.

  • Despite their justified wariness of granting the government the power to regulate speech, the Democratic-Republicans were wrong to conclude that the truth would necessarily prevail in an open exchange of information.

  • Despite the general openness among the public, though, officials at all levels of government have expressed a wariness – or outright hostility – to shifting money, Sara Libby writes.

  • Though the poll suggests the public is open to efforts to reallocate funding away from policing, officials at all level of government have expressed a wariness – or outright hostility – to doing so.

  • Our wariness of difference and diversity all too often leads us into “not like me” thinking.

  • In all, the atmosphere on Thursday night was one of tense wariness and expectation.

  • That alone will cause wariness in Israel and Western capitals.

  • Many of our leaders and pundits complain about the weariness and wariness of war, but the nature of conflict has changed.

  • A separate Pew Survey, for instance, found growing wariness and negative perceptions of America compared to two years ago.

  • Eric began to feel something of this, and there shaped in his mind a wariness, a defense against this woman who was not Suzanne.

  • With the wariness was something like question, and almost disbelief.

  • With all his wariness and calculation he measured the Major's figure.

  • Reptiles harassed mammals into the attainment of a certain amount of wariness and intelligence.

  • Dawes, recognising the necessity of extreme wariness, offered no further objection.