What women mistake as thoughtlessness is often just diffidence.
Your diffidence worries us
He may grow out of his diffidence, but this race seems to have come too early for him.
他可能走出腼腆,但是他的对手似乎远远地走在了他的前面。
Of bashfulness, diffidence or fear we had none, our main object being to bask in the heat of our own fervour.
我们没有害羞、胆怯和恐惧,因为我们的主要目的就是沉浸在我们自己的狂热当中。
Some of its other peculiarities are sulkiness, diffidence and possessiveness.
Mr Yudhoyono's former diffidence makes his new posture all the more striking.
尤多约诺总统以往的缺乏自信令其新姿态越发引人注目。
With Stalin's purges at their height, Chinese intentions of a military presence in Tibet as a prelude to annexation, and British diffidence to offer substantial help, Tibet once more looked elsewhere for military assistance and protection.
随着斯大林的大清洗达到高潮,中国在西藏确立军事存在的意图成为吞并西藏的序幕,而英国对实质性援助缺乏自信,西藏再一次将目光投往别处寻求帮助与保护。
It is with diffidence and hesitation that I approach this work.
His diffidence was mistaken for disinterest by his classmates.
She hid her diffidence behind a confident smile.
He has diffidence in expressing his opinions.
Her diffidence was not a sign of lack of knowledge.