No longer the quiet, diffident legal expert, he had become an action man.

不再是那个沉默寡言的法律专家，已经成为一个行动派。

Not that he was against religion; he supported it, in a diffident Church of England way.

这并不表示反对宗教；支持宗教，以一种缺乏自信的英国国教的方式。

Say, who was that rather diffident chap I saw you talking to round the back?

你刚才和说过话, 显得怯的那个家伙是什么人?

Then Firestar spotted her a few tail-lengths away, watching him with an uncharacteristically diffident air.

然后火星在几尾远的地方发现了她，用一种不同寻常的羞怯神情看着。

Grant was a diffident, quiet boy - blue-eyed, russet-haired, pink-cheeked, and fair-skinned.

格兰特是一个狡猾而安静的男孩——蓝眼睛、赤褐色头发、粉红色脸颊、皮肤白皙。

" That gemstone is called a lapis, " said Celeste in her diffident way.

" 那颗宝石叫青金石, " 塞莱斯特用她那羞怯的方式说。

What arises from discretion must be honoured." " You think her diffident.

因谨慎而产的后果必须得到尊重。“你觉得她不屑一顾。

Normally she was so diffident and self-deprecating, so ready to let someone else have the opinions.

通常，她是如此的怯懦和自嘲，那么准备让别人发表意见。

When I mentioned this, the writers said that Thomas Bell was atually a diffident man and a good executive.

当我提及此事， 撰稿人解释说， 托马斯·贝尔实际上是个内向的人， 也是一位优秀的管理者。

He was a diffident though distinguished nurseryman, and feared that the audience might regard his bid as a foolish one.

是一个胆怯但杰出的托儿所， 担心观众会认为的出价是愚蠢的。

Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property next fall, he was diffident and silent.

至于霍妮，同她已经有了默契，准备来年秋天继承了遗产的候结婚，可是跟在一起同样也很不自在，没有什么好说的。

He brings out, as he bustles and bangs on his way, the diffident, shrinking figures who would otherwise be drowned in darkness.

当匆匆忙忙地赶路，带出了那些原本会淹没在黑暗中的羞怯、畏缩的人物。

Now, Mr. Bhaer was a diffident man and slow to offer his own opinions, not because they were unsettled, but too sincere and earnest to be lightly spoken.

且说巴尔先是个谨小慎微的人，不急于发表自己的意见，之所以如此倒并非因为这些意见尚有疑义，而是因为它们无比真诚与认真，不该轻描淡写地表达出来。

The main benefit of this step-by-step method is to give even the most diffident and quietest people the chance to share their ideas before they can be influenced by others.

这种循序渐进的方法的主要好处是，即使是最缺乏自信和最安静的人也有机会在被人影响之前分享们的想法。

Now, Hugh Elsing, Rene, the Simmons boys, Andy Bonnell and the others found him pleasant, diffident about putting himself forward and embarrassed when they spoke of the obligation they owed him.

邦内尔和其很多人都感到可亲而又谦虚，不愿意突出自己，而且们谈到的恩惠还显得很难为情呢。

I'm a little diffident about revealing the tricks of my dishonorable calling, but the truth is, Conway's story, as I pondered over it afterwards, appealed to me enormously.

对于揭露我不光彩的职业的诡计，我有点害羞，但事实是，康威的故事，当我事后思考，对我有极大的吸引力。

He was so shabbily attired; he was so diffident from the habit of living quite alone; he was horribly afraid lest it should be supposed that he looked for other assistance than he had requested.

的衣着如此破旧;与独居的习惯是如此不同;非常害怕，怕别人认为正在寻找的帮助不是所要求的。

'I suppose no one ever had occasion to think you too diffident, or too delicate, ' Louisa answered him composedly: 'I have never made that objection to you, either as a child or as a woman.

“我想从来没有人认为你太害羞或太娇弱， ” 路易莎平静地回答：“我从来没有对你提出过这样的反对意见， 无论是作为一个孩子还是一个女人。

'When you chanced to mention Mr Reardon's name, ' she said, with a diffident smile in which lay that suggestion of humour so delightful upon a woman's face, 'you were going to say something more about him?

“当你碰巧提到里尔登先的名字，”她说，脸上带着淡淡的笑容，脸上露出那种令人愉快的幽默感，“你打算再说些关于的事情吗？