reluctance
reluctance 英 [rɪ'lʌkt(ə)ns] 美 [rɪ'lʌktəns]
n. [电磁] 磁阻；勉强；不情愿
名词复数:reluctances
- Reluctance means "unwillingness." Your reluctance to travel on an airplane would be understandable if you glimpsed the pilot and copilot wearing party hats and blowing noisemakers.
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- n. [电磁] 磁阻；勉强；不情愿
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1. The Netherlands, Slovakia and Austria have also expressed reluctance on the issue.
荷兰、斯洛伐克和奥地利在这个问题上也有不情愿的表示。
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2. Only, the cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretence of reluctance.
只有这样，虐待才会有一种合乎道德的借口和假装的不情愿而被掩盖。
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3. Morgiana obeyed, though with no little reluctance, and had a curiosity to see this man who ate no salt.
莫吉安娜服从了；虽然带着一点不情愿，并且有一点好奇去看看这个不吃盐的男人。
- reluctance (n.) 1640s, "act of struggling against," from obsolete verb reluct "to struggle or rebel against" (1520s), from Latin reluctari "to struggle against, resist, make opposition," from re- "against" (see re-) + luctari "to struggle, wrestle," from Proto-Italic *lukto-, from PIE *lug-to- "bent" (source also of Old Irish foloing "supports," inloing "connects;" Middle Welsh ellwng- "to set free;" Greek lygos "withy, pliant twig," lygizein "to bend, twist;" Gothic galukan "to shut," uslukan "to open;" Old English locc "twist of hair." Meaning "unwillingness" is first attested 1660s. Related: Reluctancy (1620s.).
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