| 词汇 | reluctantly |
| 释义 | reluctantly adverb uk /rɪˈlʌk.tənt.li/ us /rɪˈlʌk.tənt.li/ C1 in a way that shows that you are not willing to do something and are therefore slow to do it: 勉强地;不情愿地 She reluctantly agreed to step down as managing director.她勉强同意辞去总经理的职务。 Reluctantly, he did what I asked.他不情愿地照我说的做了。 See reluctant She has reluctantly agreed to resign. They reluctantly allowed her to act in the play. I reluctantly withdrew from the project. Unwilling and reluctant arsed balk baulk be blowed if...idiom be in no mood for something/to do somethingidiom begrudge deign disinclination disinclined disobliging drag your heels/feetidiom indisposed indisposition jib not have the stomach for somethingidiom rather you than meidiom reluctance reluctant shagged wouldn't Examples of reluctantlyreluctantly While national leaders reluctantly accepted state reform, they steadfastly refused to consider any modification of their own highly centralised political party structures. Then, one day the father contemplates staying at work an extra hour before going home and, reluctantly, decides to stay at work. He gave even that undertaking very grumpily and reluctantly. He reluctantly agreed to see a primary care physician, who discovered two huge solid scrotal masses. However, many narrators wrote only reluctantly, suspecting that their life stories were too mundane to be of any interest to anybody. Reluctantly, the authorities admitted that a significant portion of the population were tuning in. Its existence as a disease entity remains a matter of debate, and it is diagnosed only reluctantly in the elderly. The sudden democratisation and the concessions to the workers' movement (eight-hour day, full right to strike, etc.) were accepted only reluctantly by the middle classes. They have done so tentatively, almost reluctantly, even though it is a policy of which they have much to be proud. For financial as well as for ideological reasons, the wonderful announcements in colonial memoranda were only partially and reluctantly translated into action. Rejecting the purely advisory role reluctantly assigned to it, the committee sought instead actively to direct women's war effort. Several were apologetic about it: ' reluctantly yes'; ' yes, afraid so'; ' sadly, yes'. The central government reluctantly admitted that some financial reform was needed to ease this problem. Yet, however ' reluctantly ' accepted, women, unpaid until 1885, made up over half the mission force in 1899 - if one adds in the unpaid working wives. We were reluctantly compelled to retrace our steps, and try to proceed westward in another direction. See all examples of reluctantly 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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