| 1. | He has diffidence in expressing his opinions .
他表达意见时缺乏自信。 |
| 2. | Such diffidence calmed rather than alerted us .
这种优柔寡断的调子没有使我们警觉起来，反倒使我们安心了。 |
| 3. | As a result heath rarely exhibited nixon's crippling diffidence .
因此，希思很少表现出尼克松那种郁郁寡欢。 |
| 4. | The outer crust of her life, all of her natural diffidence and reserve, was torn away .
她的生活的外壳，她的一切天生的羞怯和庄重，全撕破了。 |
| 5. | This lady received the visitors with a mixture of ceremony and diffidence quite english .
这位太太接待客人既拘泥礼节，又很腼腆，颇有英国风味。 |
| 6. | Mr. pen, besides other drawbacks, chose to entertain an extreme diffidence about himself .
潘先生，除了其他缺点外，对涉及他自己的事总是异常胆怯。 |
| 7. | He had never thought of his sweetheart as of so superior a being, and he was instantly taken with a feeling of diffidence .
他从来没有想到他的爱人会这样的华贵，竟使他的内心立刻产生了一种自惭形秽的感觉。 |
| 8. | I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence .
这种方法我连续用了几年，后来就逐渐抛弃，只保留了谦恭的不作肯定表述的习惯。 |
| 9. | Not unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself .
就任之初，我并非不知道我的能力薄弱，而且我自己的经历更使我缺乏自信，这在别人看来，恐怕更是如此。 |
| 10. | What affectation of diffidence was this at first
“起初为什么装模做样羞羞答答？ ” |
