No longer the quiet, diffident legal expert, he had become an action man.

他不再是那个沉默寡言的法律专家，他已经成为一个行动派。

Not that he was against religion; he supported it, in a diffident Church of England way.

这并不表示他反对宗教；他支持宗教，以一种缺乏自信的英国国教的方式。

He was very diffident at that time.

那时他极度缺乏自信。

Say, who was that rather diffident chap I saw you talking to round the back?

你刚才和他说过话, 显得怯生生的那个家伙是什么人?

He was a diffident though distinguished nurseryman, and feared that the audience might regard his bid as a foolish one.

他是一个胆怯但杰出的托儿所， 担心观众会认为他的出价是愚蠢的。

Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property next fall, he was diffident and silent.

至于霍妮，他同她已经有了默契，准备来年秋天他继承了遗产的时候结婚，可是他跟他在一起时同样也很不自在，没有什么好说的。

If you do hear this word, you'll probably hear it in the adjective form, " diffident." " Shyness" isn't necessarily a bad thing.

如果你确实听到这个词， 你可能会听到它以形容词的形式， “diffident” 。 害羞“不一定是坏事。

Now, Mr. Bhaer was a diffident man and slow to offer his own opinions, not because they were unsettled, but too sincere and earnest to be lightly spoken.

且说巴尔先生是个谨小慎微的人，他不急于发表自己的意见，之所以如此倒并非因为这些意见尚有疑义，而是因为它们无比真诚与认真，不该轻描淡写地表达出来。

I'm a little diffident about revealing the tricks of my dishonorable calling, but the truth is, Conway's story, as I pondered over it afterwards, appealed to me enormously.

对于揭露我不光彩的职业的诡计，我有点害羞，但事实是，康威的故事，当我事后思考时，对我有极大的吸引力。

Now, Hugh Elsing, Rene, the Simmons boys, Andy Bonnell and the others found him pleasant, diffident about putting himself forward and embarrassed when they spoke of the obligation they owed him.

邦内尔和其他很多人都感到他可亲而又谦虚，不愿意突出自己，而且他们谈到他的恩惠时还显得很难为情呢。