Even those passengers who were most distrustful of themselves plucked up amazingly. 甚至那些对自己最缺乏信心的乘客也鼓起了勇气,真令人惊异。
distrustful
[ adj ] having or showing distrust <adj.all> a man of distrustful naturemy experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally vigilant and distrustful superintendence
Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a. 1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. --Pope.
2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n.
The rebels, who are led by the minority Tutsis, are trying to broaden their appeal by calling on the Hutu majority to join them in government. It is not yet clear whether this appeal will calm the fears of a distrustful Hutu community.
Humans, he said, are greedy, selfish and distrustful, and will prey upon one another unless they are restrained by fear of a coercive power.
She said she has become distrustful and winces at unexpected sounds.
He said he met with some distrustful and suspicious residents _ and several slammed doors.
He had become so distrustful that he was often ordering lab studies and X-rays for legal documentation rather than for diagnosis.
"Before the Bologna verdict, Italians were diffident if not distrustful toward the system of justice," said Franco Ferrarotti, a University of Rome sociologist in a telephone interview.