Reluctant

(adj.) not eager; 'foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways'; 'fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him' .

(adj.) disinclined to become involved; 'they were usually reluctant to socialize'; 'reluctant to help' .

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• I said it (people often do so, in such cases) like a rather reluctant concession to truth and justice;--as if I wanted to deny it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I have lifted it for a moment, even in this narrative, with a reluctant hand, and dropped it gladly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I felt reluctant to be present, when Mr. Peggotty first met his sister and Ham; and made Mr. Omer my excuse for lingering behind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• True,' was Sissy's reluctant admission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• To speak the truth, I thought none in Yorkshire knew better than yourself why he was reluctant to come home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A sister to whom I have confided so much, aunt, will not be reluctant to confide in me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• You have no goodwill towards this Wrayburn,' said Bradley, coming to the name in a reluctant and forced way, as if he were dragged to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Much better, said Jerry, not unlike a reluctant witness at the establishment in question, than I, as a honest tradesman, wish to know the Bailey. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I seized her reluctant hand--Dear friend, I cried, misguided victim, do you not intend to escape with me? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He gave a reluctant assent to this. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The old man answered with a reluctant nod. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She was reluctant to yield there, where he wanted her, to yield as it were her very identity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• One of them she knew, a tall, slow, reluctant woman with a weight of fair hair and a pale, long face. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And may reluctant admiration acknowledge that he electrified her with two words? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He sprang through a gate into a field, dragging the reluctant Pompey after him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• One thing after another had been torn from his reluctant grasp, and now it seemed as if his life itself was to crown the measure of repayment. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• And thus our youth, having been educated only in that simple music which, as we said, inspires temperance, will be reluctant to go to law. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I'll try,' returned the reluctant whelp, 'if it isn't a long un. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• And also they were dragged into a reluctant attempt to define their relations to Old-World politics in some other terms than those of mere aloofness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So secretive and active and anxious the young woman seemed, so reluctant, slinking, the young man. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Sir James Hall of Dunglass was a reluctant convert to Hutton's system of geology. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I never had a home, I never had brothers or sisters; I must and will have them now: you are not reluctant to admit me and own me, are you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Elizabeth tried to join in her father's pleasantry, but could only force one most reluctant smile. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He did not care himself about spending money, and was not reluctant to give it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But, here the Irrepressible skirmished into the conflict, dragging the reluctant form of Mr Sampson after her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He gave a reluctant 'Yes. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Ye-es, is Mr. Weevle's reluctant admission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But he was reluctant to try it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The woman seemed desirous, yet reluctant, to speak, and answered, in low, mysterious tone. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Do you fancy me then so humble and so void of taste as to buy with my money the reluctant embraces of any woman breathing? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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