| 单词 | disinclined |
| 释义 | disinclined < disinclined to go out > < disinclined to accept his story > : lacking desire < disinclined for conversation > Synonyms: < disinclined to go to the movies > < the Italian, so affable as a rule, was rather preoccupied and disinclined for talk — Norman Douglas > < the various writers are disinclined to come to real grips with the vexed question of public control in industry — M.R.Cohen > indisposed implies an unfavorable, often hostile or unsympathetic attitude < they were indisposed to put money into foolish enterprises > hesitant implies a holding back as through fear, uncertainty, or irresolution < he smiled, in a hesitant way, as though not sure how Walter would take such familiarity on his part — T.B.Costain > < hesitant about spending the money required to build an experimental plant — Harold Griffin > reluctant implies a holding back through unwillingness < he was reluctant to speak out, afraid to let his emotions seize upon his speech — V.L.Parrington > < worked only one shift, because workers were reluctant to change their accustomed hours — Time > < his passionate appeal to their loyalty wrested a reluctant assent to the prosecution of the war — J.R.Green > loath connotes a prospective act incompatible with one's feelings, convictions, or makeup < Frederick stood at the door, loath to go without some shred of victory to take with him — Irwin Shaw > < loth to perjure himself > < publishers have been loath to publish translations of anything except our surefire sex-and-mayhem fiction — W.H.Whyte > averse suggests a turning away from something distasteful or repugnant < the adventurers, though not averse to courting, being unwilling to entangle themselves in a matrimonial alliance — Herman Melville > < not insensible to the power of female beauty, nor averse from excess in wine — T.B.Macaulay > < politicians … averse from political suicide — W.K.Hancock > < slow of speech, tenacious of opinion, and averse … to innovation of any sort — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > |
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