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reluctant [ri'lʌktənt]

a. 不情愿的, 勉强的

[法] 不愿的, 勉强的, 难以处理的

They were very reluctant to help.
他们不大愿意帮忙。
He gave a reluctant promise.
他勉强答应下来了。

reluctant

[ adj ]

unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

<adj.all>

a reluctant smile

loath to admit a mistake

disinclined to become involved

<adj.all>

they were usually reluctant to socialize

reluctant to help

not eager

<adj.all>

foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways

fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him

Reluctant \Re*luc"tant\ (-tant), a. [L. reluctans, -antis, p.
pr. of reluctari. See {Reluct}.]
1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling;
disinclined; loth.

Reluctant, but in vain. --Milton.

Reluctant now I touched the trembling string.
--Tickell.

2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with
reluctance; as, reluctant obedience. --Mitford.

Syn: Averse; unwilling; loth; disinclined; repugnant;
backward; coy. See {Averse}.

Although Mr. Siegel is described by some friends as a man who is reluctant to leave any money on the table in a business negotiation, he is anything but a Scrooge in his personal life.
The Saudis have been reluctant in the past to allow any U.S. military exercises on their soil, not wishing to provoke their neighbors.
At first reluctant to see their lives on the screen, the family was _ and still is _ pleased with the film.
On March 23, Burnley said that FAA is often reluctant to write regulations that would impose additional costs on the nation's aviation industry.
Super Foods has increased the dividend for 10 consecutive years, a string that he said the board would be reluctant to break.
Market watchers were reluctant to draw conclusions because trading volume remained light.
Denis, meanwhile, courts a reluctant elementary school teacher (Jo Anderson).
Security police today seized a second recording of a defiant sermon by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and a pro-government newspaper said authorities should not be reluctant to prosecute him.
People are intimidated and reluctant to complain.
Secretary of State George Shultz testified that the Reagan administration's arms sales to Iran provoked a "battle royal" that matched him against deceptive White House advisers and a president reluctant to see the policy as one of arms for hostages.
In part, the answer may be that Santa Fe has counted on using proceeds from the sale of some assets to pay for its planned stock buy-backs and may have been reluctant to make major stock purchases without completing those sales.
But looking for Western Europe to make the conventional-force improvements that all candidates agree are necessary is hardly a sure-fire route to success, as the Europeans have been notoriously reluctant to increase defense spending significantly.
Even so, officials at Merck were reluctant to talk about the drugs or their prospects.
Districts to the north are reluctant to take the waste, as are neighbouring states.
Malaysia has its own pollution problems, the result of eight years of more than 8 per cent economic growth, and is reluctant to lay all the blame on Indonesia.
Even so, the administration has been reluctant to move against the countries, partly out of concern that critics would call such actions protectionist.
Some thought the Communist Party would be reluctant to relinquish power.
The third year of a three-year tax cut could be delayed, too, although Cuomo is reluctant to do so.
Power plants have a different problem, because officials are reluctant to let them put chlorine or other disinfectants in cooling water discharged back to the lake, Henderson said.
Although the government plans to reform the health system, it appears reluctant to endorse reforms that ideologically would threaten the concept of socialized free medicine.
But Mr. Cavazos is said to be reluctant to extend the Nebraska exemption to HEAF and its troubled guarantee portfolio.
Analysts said many investors were reluctant to take major positions in advance of Friday's report on employment.
There is no reason why it should be reluctant to use it.
And the administration, chastened by previous defeats, has been reluctant to move forward with even watered-down arms sales to the Saudis and other Arab friends.
Recent high court decisions have derailed numerous job-discrimination cases and made lawyers reluctant to bring new suits, civil-rights lawyers say.
Officials concerned about vulnerability had been reluctant to send a carrier into the gulf, whose entrance is the narrow Strait of Hormuz.
Many investors, particularly pensioners, need to squeeze as much income as they can from their ventures and are reluctant to take any risks with the capital.
Like conventional arms, the issue of chemical weapons is the subject of multilateral treaty negotiations under way in Geneva. Hence, the United States is reluctant to sign anything, although the issue will be raised.
In currency dealings, yen-selling pressure remained strong since the dollar's higher opening today, but many market participants were reluctant to make major moves before the U.S. trade report for May, traders said.
High debt levels throughout the economy leave companies and consumers reluctant to borrow and banks hesitant to lend.

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