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单词 reluctant
释义
reluctant
adjective
uk
/rɪˈlʌk.tənt/us
/rɪˈlʌk.tənt/
C1
notwillingto do something andthereforeslowto do it:
勉强的；不情愿的
[+ to infinitive]I was having such a goodtimeI was reluctanttoleave.我玩得很开心，都不愿意离开了。
Manyparentsfeelreluctanttotalkopenlywiththeirchildren.很多父母都不愿意和儿女们敞开心扉交谈。
Shepersuadedher reluctanthusbandto take atripto Florida with her.她说服了丈夫跟她一起去佛罗里达旅游，尽管他不太情愿。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not wanting to do something
  • unwillingShe was unwilling to hand over the money.
  • loathI was loath to spend all the money at once.
  • balkThe MP balked at a proposal to raise council tax.
  • reluctantI was reluctant to leave because I was having such a good time.
  • disinclinedI am disinclined to take on the extra work without more pay.
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More examples
  • TheUnitedNationswas reluctant to getitsforcesembroiledincivilwar.
  • I'm abitreluctant to getinvolved.
  • Thegovernmentwas reluctant tosanctioninterventionin thecrisis.
  • Thegovernmentisunderstandablyreluctant to do anything which mightspoiltheharmoniousrelationsbetween the country'sethnicgroups.
  • Amotherwascoaxingher reluctantchildinto thewater.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unwilling and reluctant
  • arsed
  • balk
  • baulk
  • be blowed if...idiom
  • be in no mood forsomething/to dosomethingidiom
  • begrudge
  • compassion fatigue
  • deign
  • disinclination
  • disinclined
  • disobliging
  • fag
  • indisposed
  • indisposition
  • not have the heart todo somethingidiom
  • not have the stomach forsomethingidiom
  • ratheryouthanmeidiom
  • reluctance
  • reluctantly
  • wouldn't
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reluctantly
(Definition ofreluctantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

reluctant| American Dictionary

reluctant
adjective
us
/rɪˈlʌk·tənt/
notwantingto do something andthereforeslowto do it:
[+ to infinitive]She hadtroublesleepingbut was reluctant to takesleepingpills.

reluctance

noun[U]us
/rɪˈlʌk·təns/
Thepollalsoshoweda reluctance toaccepthighertaxes,particularlyat thelocallevel.

reluctantly

adverbus
/rɪˈlʌk·tənt·li/
He reluctantlyresigned.
(Definition ofreluctantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreluctant

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The risk is that clinicians increasingly will bereluctantto do quite ordinary procedures to help patients because of existing guidelines.
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At this critical juncture government was stillreluctantto get involved but private initiative stepped in and took the lead.
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Most readers interested in one volume will also want to read the other, but will bereluctantto pay £190 for the whole collection.
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The director of an experimental elementary school told me that parents werereluctantat first, but he met with them regularly to change their minds.
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Some artists, of course, arereluctantto explain their practice believing the work to be autonomous and capable of speaking for itself.
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As will become clear later, this means that artists and producers located in lower prestige groups were morereluctantto be interviewed.
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Many of those who belonged to churches werereluctantto endorse this practice, on the grounds that it encouraged promiscuity.
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When refugees provedreluctantto be 'dispersed', government dismissed their resistance as 'irrational'.
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He subsequently felt that it had been his own fears that made him soreluctantto allow her to share her thoughts with him.
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However, both civil servants and representatives of the voluntary sector appearedreluctantto criticise the new government's proposals for the revised strategy.
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Households living in the hills are therefore understandablyreluctantto use manure, and to a somewhat lesser extent crop residues, for fuel.
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Therefore, once a patient settles with a drug, physicians may bereluctantto experiment with new brands.
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Understandably, inhabitants of villages adjacent to the colonization centres werereluctantto be resettled.
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These sectors currently have little union coverage since many part-time or temporary workers arereluctantto join unions because of dues or other considerations.
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And given that its partisans frequently enjoyed the backing of governmental and ecclesiastical forces, they were generallyreluctantto endorse equality and full religious toleration.
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