reluctant

英 [rɪ'lʌktənt] 美 [rɪ'lʌktənt]

• adj. 不情愿的；勉强的

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 不情愿的,勉强的

   unwilling, and therefore perhaps slow to act

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 不情愿的
2. 勉强的
3. <罕>阻挠的
4. 顽抗的
5. 厌恶的
6. 嫌厌的
7. 不高兴的
8. 难处理的
9. 难加工的
10. 难得到的
11. 反抗的
12. 抵抗的
13. 不想
14. 不乐意
15. 不得已
16. 依依不舍的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom;

   "a reluctant smile"
   "loath to admit a mistake"
   

2. disinclined to become involved;

   "they were usually reluctant to socialize"
   "reluctant to help"
   

3. not eager;

   "foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways"
   "fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. They were very reluctant to help.
   他们不大愿意帮忙。
2. I was reluctant to do over the stitching in the dress.
   我不愿意把衣服上的线脚拆了重缝。
3. By 1982 they had become reluctant to extend new loans to public borrowers.
   到1982年，他们已不愿向公共借贷者发放新的贷款。
4. Margaret gave him a reluctant consent.
   玛格丽特勉强答应了他。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. He gave me a reluctant assistance.
   他很不情愿地给了我帮助。

用作表语

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

1. I am reluctant about asking him to do this.
   我极不愿意让他去干此事。

S+be+～+to- v

1. He was reluctant to leave me, but he had no choice.
   他不愿意离开我,但又别无选择。
2. He was very reluctant to admit his mistake.
   他十分勉强地承认了自己的错误。
3. He is reluctant to be photographed.
   他不情愿被人照相。

经典引文

• What light and beauty could be forced down the throats of her reluctant pupils, she forced.

  出自： J. Steinbeck

• I was slow to grow upsreluctant..to leave the state of childhood.

  出自： Day Lewis

• She turned to go,..wrestled with the reluctant swing door.

  出自： transf.

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• reluctant follower 胁从分子

～+介词

• reluctant to 难驾驭…的,难处理…的
• a soil reluctant to the plough 难耕的土壤

词义辨析

unwilling，reluctant

• 这两个形容词均有“不情愿的，不愿意的”之意。
• unwilling语气强烈，指有力的否定、拒绝。也可指被牵涉于非本意之事。
• reluctant指做不赞同的，不很乐意的或害怕的事，有时也指坚决反对某事。

近反义词

【近义词】

• hesitant
• unwilling

【反义词】

• agreeable