词汇 | hesitantly |
释义 | hesitantly adverb uk /ˈhez.ɪ.tənt.li/ us /ˈhez.ə.tənt.li/ in a way that is not immediate or quick because you are nervous or not certain: 犹豫地,迟疑不决地 She approached the teacher hesitantly.她犹豫着走近老师。 "I'm afraid," he says hesitantly, "I forgot that today is our anniversary." “恐怕,”他犹豫地说:“我忘了今天是我们的结婚纪念日。” See hesitant She confirmed the rumor, hesitantly. He spoke hesitantly, guarded, in a raspy voice. People hesitantly trickled out of hiding and onto the dusty streets of the capital. Hesitating backward broken English dilly-dally dither ditherer gun-shy halting haltingly hang hang back have a foot in both campsidiom hem and hawidiom hesitancy hesitant hesitate hesitatingly hum pussyfoot shilly-shally sit on the fenceidiom Examples of hesitantlyhesitantly On the basis of the articles contained in this issue, one may hesitantly advance some conjectures about causes of scientific style. Nonetheless, these local understandings, we could hesitantly term them parochial traditions, are seldom given such a prominent position by historians. During the 1980s, this policy innovation was embraced hesitantly elsewhere. Hints of darkness in the harmony are countered by a folky, hesitantly buoyant second subject. Some of these papers, hesitantly or overtly, invoke culture or interpersonal interaction to motivate the properties of classifiers. Even then, it expressed itself hesitantly. It is a commonplace to say, but it is not true, that trade followed the flag; rather, the flag followed hesitantly after the trader. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it does so hesitantly, for understandable reasons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that a number of people supported nationalisation hesitantly, doubtfully, because they believed that nationalisation was necessary for supervision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that hesitantly in the context of the local government review. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is true that one takes such powers only warily and hesitantly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I agree that these policies are evolving too slowly, too hesitantly—in fact, in some cases without observable evolvement at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said—and he was moving towards it hesitantly; and there is some justification for being hesitant—that the issues were proper conditions of the licence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet in spite of that, in this fair weather we are having many difficulties and the ship seems to be moving hesitantly on its course. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it should not respond hesitantly, half-heartedly and defensively. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of hesitantly These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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