| 单词 | reluctance |
| 释义 | reluctance (once / 774 pages) 1n 2n 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. If you'd rather not do something, you feel a sense of reluctance about it. You pause for a moment, maybe to consider whether you should really go through with it, or just to enjoy the last moment before it happens. The word comes from the Latin reluctari, or to struggle against. There's always a struggle when reluctance is present, in that you feel pressure to do something or in not agreeing right away, someone is going to be disappointed. WORD FAMILYreluctance: reluctances+/reluctant: reluctance, reluctantly USAGE EXAMPLESThe Big Ten’s reluctance to move toward the spread was a boon for its Rose Bowl foes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) There's a real reluctance to address child abuse fatalities in the military because it's a career-ender for soldiers. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) The reluctance was not about lack of compassion. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1 n a certain degree of unwillingness 2a reluctance to commit himself Syn|Hypo|Hyper disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition sloth, slothfulness a disinclination to work or exert yourself involuntariness, unwillingness the trait of being unwilling n (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) Hyper electrical phenomenon a physical phenomenon involving electricity |
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