diffidence [ˈdɪfɪdəns, -ˌdɛns]

例句:

• Mumblecore disdains flamboyance; its reigning mood is diffidence.
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• What women mistake as thoughtlessness is often just diffidence.
  女性误以为是考虑不周的事情往往只是缺乏自信。
  
• He entered the room with a certain diffidence.
  他怯生生地走进房间。
  
• He failed through diffidence.
  他因缺乏自信而失败.
  
• Ware regards Earhart's pose of Lindberghian diffidence with critical amusement.
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• The e-mails and letters that emanated from Royston blended formality with faux diffidence.
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