coyness
基本解释
- n.怕羞；羞怯
英汉例句
- He was not in the mood for coyness, and thankfully Geoffrey seemed calmer than earlier in the Hall of Fathers.
他没有兴趣猜谜语，而感谢上帝杰弗里似乎比早前在父之堂的时候冷静很多。 - He rejects all of the advances of the women who are attracted to him but Bacchantes, the female followers of the god Bacchus, are enraged by what they take to be his coyness.
他拒绝了所有被他吸引的女性,但是巴克坎忒斯，酒神巴克斯的女追随者们，认为他这是忸怩作态，愤怒不已。 - Yet despite Mr Merckle’s coyness and the still insalubrious reputation in Germany of private equity and hedge funds, these business models are in fact steadily gaining ground.
然而尽管默克尔先生遮遮掩掩，尽管私募基金和对冲基金在德国声名狼藉，他们的行业模式实际上已经越来越为人们所接受。 - He rejects all of the advances of the women who are attracted to him but Bacchantes, the female followers of the god Bacchus, are enraged by what they take to be his coyness.
他拒绝了所有被他吸引的女性,但是巴克坎忒斯，酒神巴克斯的女追随者们，认为他这是忸怩作态，愤怒不已。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选 - No, the trouble is Mr Anderson's coyness about where he himself stands and why.
ECONOMIST: Political ideas - His coyness, they argue, has knocked market confidence over the past couple of weeks.
ECONOMIST: Sinking to old lows - Mary also refuses to say her son's name, a coyness that grows irritating.
NPR: Review: There's Something (weird) About Mary