reticent
英式音标：reticent怎么读
美式音标：reticent怎么读
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近义词： distant
reticent词义
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adj. 沉默的；有保留的；谨慎的
词态变化
名词: reticence;
中文词源
reticent 寡言少语的
来自拉丁语 reticere,保持安静，来自 re-,表强调，tacere,安静，词源同 tacit.引申词义寡言少语 的。
reticent双语例句
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- 1. She is so reticent about her achievements.
- 她对自己的成就缄口不言。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She was shy and reticent.
- 她羞怯而寡言少语。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. He was reticent about his opinion.
- 他有保留意见.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. She was morose, pale, and reticent.
- 她面色苍白、忧郁孤僻，并且沉默寡言。
来自辞典例句
- 5. Mrs. Smith, normally a reticent woman, took it upon herself to write to the President.
- 通常都很沉默的史密斯夫人决定自己给总统写信。
来自辞典例句
reticent英文词源
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- reticent
- reticent: [19] The ultimate source of reticent is Latin tacēre ‘be silent’ (source of English tacit and taciturn). Combination with the intensive prefix re- produced reticēre ‘keep silent’, whose present participle gave English reticent. It was preceded into the language by over two hundred years by the derived noun reticence.
=> tacit, taciturn - reticent (adj.)
- 1834, from Latin reticentem (nominative reticens), present participle of reticere "be silent" (see reticence).
reticent实用场景例句
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- She is so reticent about her achievements.
- 她对自己的成就缄口不言。
柯林斯例句
- She was shy and reticent.
- 她羞怯而寡言少语。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- He was reticent about his opinion.
- 他有保留意见.
《简明英汉词典》
- She was morose, pale, and reticent.
- 她面色苍白、忧郁孤僻，并且沉默寡言。
辞典例句
- He was extremely reticent about his personal life.
- 他对自己的个人生活讳莫如深。
辞典例句
- " No. " The answer was both reticent and impersonally sad.
- “ 不. ” 这回答既简短,又含有一种无以名状的悲戚.
名作英译部分
- He was reticent about his past [ on family affairs ].
- 他对自己的过去 [ 家务事 ] 闭口不谈.
辞典例句
- He seemed unduly reticent on the subject of his past.
- 他似乎对他过去的事情讳莫如深.
辞典例句
- He was reticent, patrician, bookish, urbane.
- 他沉默含蓄, 雍容华贵, 书生气十足,而又温文有礼.
辞典例句
- So I lips reticent, but grateful that he still pens.
- 于是我嘴上不爱说话, 但感谢自己还有支笔.
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- The boss asked us to keep reticent on what had happened.
- 老板让我们对发生的事情保持沉默.
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- A misunderstood Capricorn Moon withdraws into solitude, reticent to share its feelings.
- 被误解时,摩羯月亮往往会选择孤独, 拒绝分享他们的情绪.
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- The English are reticent.
- 英国人沉默寡言.
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- The English are reticent. The Englishmen are reticent.
- 英国人沉默寡言. 这些英国人沉默寡言.
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- Aunty Henny was an outgoing but reticent person.
- 亨妮阿姨为人友善,但沉默寡言.
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