reticence

英 ['retɪsns] 美 ['retɪsns]

• n. 无言；沉默；谨慎

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 保留
2. 节制
3. 缄默
4. 沉默寡言
5. 含蓄
6. 谨慎
7. 不轻易暴露想法或感情
8. 不爱说话
9. 言不尽意
10. 谨严

英英释义

Noun:

1. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. His reticence is more revealing than his speech.
   他的沉默所表露的要胜过他的言词。
2. It was impossible to break through her barricade of reticence.
   要打破她沉默的壁垒简直是不可能的。

经典引文

• The..reticence with which this odd man was concealing his board result.

  出自： A. Lewis

• Former reticences about matters once deemed private..can be discarded.

  出自： S. Weintraub

词汇搭配

• reticent 寡言少语的

近反义词

【近义词】

• silence 沉默
• constraint 约束
• reserve 保留
• discretion 谨慎
• restraint 克制
• shyness 羞怯
• bashfulness 羞怯
• quietness 平静
• modesty 谦逊
• introversion 内向性
• taciturnity 沉默寡言