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词汇 self-consciously
释义 self-consciously
adverb
uk /ˌselfˈkɒn.ʃəs.li/ us /ˌselfˈkɑːn.ʃəs.li/

self-consciouslyadverb (NERVOUSLY)


in a nervous or uncomfortable way because you are worried about what people think about you or your actions: 局促不安地;不自在地
She blushed self-consciously when I complimented her.当我称赞她时,她不自在地红了脸。
She does not giggle self-consciously; she does not blush.
Tim mimicked her movements, then laughed self-consciously.
I'm the skinny, self-consciously awkward guy who always ends up alone in a corner at the office party.
I have this self-consciously shy side where I'm incredibly terrified of being in the limelight.
Ronnie looks away for a moment, self-consciously wiping her eyes.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Shy and modest
aw shucks
backward
bashful
bashfully
bashfulness
humility
inadequacy
inadequate
indoorsiness
indoorsy
mousy
reticence
reticently
retiring
self-conscious
self-consciousness
shyness
unassuming
wallflower
withdrawn

self-consciouslyadverb (INTENTIONALLY)


in a way that is intentional, especially in order to impress people :
The packaging is self-consciously clever and politically slick.
They live in a self-consciously gentrified cottage in Suffolk.
Related word
self-conscious
The new album is too self-consciously clever for its own good.
When it's not being self-consciously frenetic, the show has a sly sense of humour.
Rock music self-consciously sneers at all that art and academic stuff.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Planning, expecting and arranging
accidentally
accidentally on purposeidiom
advertent
advisedly
aim at something
bargain
conscious
game something out
have something in mindidiom
have something up your sleeveidiom
horizon scanning
how are you fixed for something?idiom
pencil
provide for someone
provident
providently
provision
purpose
purposefully
settle

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Attention-seeking, distracting and showing off

Examples of self-consciously


self-consciously
But it also requires reflection, since the author self-consciously does not tell readers what is going on, nor explicitly how the frames fit together.
Learned discourse relied too much on the authority of intellectual elites to sway a self-consciously democratic populace that insisted on thinking for itself.
The self-consciously centrist government, however, tenaciously clung to power across these years.
Gries is self-consciously part of a recent wave of scholars claiming that emotions are important for understanding politics.
Such a self-consciously dialectic approach allows more room for complexity and ambiguity.
It was the hard-working, entrepreneurial, charitable middling townsman, and his equally diligent wife; the characters who now, quite self-consciously, occupied this typical urban middling order.
The common denominator that came to identify the immigrants as distinct was their self-consciously progressive status, which became a critical part of their self-identity.
Only human beings self-consciously and intentionally decide how they should live; only human beings have projects that are essential to living a good life.
With biological literalism, the photograph conveys the material truth behind the alabaster male torso of classical sculpture that it self-consciously displaces.
Despite the similarity of the territory covered, these are both different books; working from different premises, with one more self-consciously theoretical than the other.
Its proponents also self-consciously resist engaging other social scientists studying the same field of problems.
Evidence from the lives of the schoolmistresses in the study suggests that many self-consciously sought some kind of preparation for their work.
In the pre-archival era, scholars had suspected that their public language was self-consciously more rhetorical than substantive.
Even if they are visual, they are self-consciously so.
This article explores how 'noise music' uses its influences, how it refers to them, and what occurs formally, when using influence self-consciously and formally.
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