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diffident about something/doing something collocation shy and not confident of your abilities: 羞怯的,怯生生的 You shouldn't be so diffident about your achievements - you've done really well!你不该对自己的成绩这么不自信——你做得的确很好! Bob felt diffident about challenging an older man. See
diffident She is very quietly spoken, shy, and diffident about her heavily accented English. Some authors are diffident about their thesis, burying it in a blizzard of qualifications and footnotes. Although he was diffident about going to teach at Newton College, he still went. Katrina felt diffident about making suggestions. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Shy and modest aw shucks backward bashful bashfully bashfulness inadequacy inadequate indoorsiness indoorsy inhibited mousy reticently retiring self-conscious self-consciously self-consciousness shyness unassuming wallflower withdrawn |