reluctancy
/ri-luhk-tuhns/US // rɪˈlʌk təns //UK // (rɪˈlʌktəns) //
勉强,不情愿,勉强性,不愿
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- : Electricity. the resistance to magnetic flux offered by a magnetic circuit, determined by the permeability and arrangement of the materials of the circuit.
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Or he may deprive himself of some lesser advantages in life by his reluctancy in putting himself forward.
His letter, however, showed his half-hidden reluctancy towards giving up the faithful old dog.
The water-lily closes, but With wonderful reluctancy; As if it troubled her to shut Her door of welcome to the bee.
A biographer records her death from smallpox when twenty-five years old, "to the unspeakable reluctancy of her relatives."
Hiding his reluctancy, Cooper left his seat and advanced toward the doorway.
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