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

不再是那个沉默寡言法律专家，已经成为个行动派。

The main benefit of this step-by-step method is to give even the most diffident and quietest people the chance to share their ideas before they can be influenced by others.

这种循序渐进方法主要好处是，即使是最缺乏自信和最安静人也有机会在被人影响之前分享想法。

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.

邦内尔和其很多人都感到可亲而又谦虚，不愿意突出自己，而且谈到恩惠还显得很难为情呢。

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人，不急于发表自己意见，之所以如此倒并非因为这些意见尚有疑，而是因为它无比真诚与认真，不该轻描淡写地表达出来。

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

这并不表示反对宗教；支持宗教，以种缺乏自信英国国教方式。

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，同她已经有了默契，准备来年秋天继承了遗产候结婚，可是跟在同样也很不自在，没有什么好说。

'I suppose no one ever had occasion to think you too diffident, or too delicate, ' Louisa answered him composedly: 'I have never made that objection to you, either as a child or as a woman.

“我想从来没有人认为你太害羞或太娇弱， ” 路易莎平静地回答：“我从来没有对你提出过这样反对意见， 无论是作为个孩子还是个女人。

He was so shabbily attired; he was so diffident from the habit of living quite alone; he was horribly afraid lest it should be supposed that he looked for other assistance than he had requested.

衣着如此破旧;与独居习惯是如此不同;非常害怕，生怕别人认为正在寻找帮助不是所要求。

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.

对于揭露我不光彩职业诡计，我有点害羞，但事实是，康威故事，当我事后思考，对我有极大吸引力。

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

是个胆怯但杰出托儿所， 担心观众会认为出价是愚蠢。

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

你刚才和说过话, 显得怯生生那个家伙是什么人?

" That gemstone is called a lapis, " said Celeste in her diffident way.

" 那颗宝石叫青金石, " 塞莱斯特用她那羞怯方式说。

Grant was a diffident, quiet boy - blue-eyed, russet-haired, pink-cheeked, and fair-skinned.

格兰特是个狡猾而安静男孩——蓝眼睛、赤褐色头发、粉红色脸颊、皮肤白皙。

What arises from discretion must be honoured." " You think her diffident.

因谨慎而产生后果必须得到尊重。“你觉得她不屑顾。

Then Firestar spotted her a few tail-lengths away, watching him with an uncharacteristically diffident air.

然后火星在几尾远地方发现了她，用种不同寻常羞怯神情看着。

He brings out, as he bustles and bangs on his way, the diffident, shrinking figures who would otherwise be drowned in darkness.

当匆匆忙忙地赶路，带出了那些原本会淹没在黑暗中羞怯、畏缩人物。

'When you chanced to mention Mr Reardon's name, ' she said, with a diffident smile in which lay that suggestion of humour so delightful upon a woman's face, 'you were going to say something more about him?

“当你碰巧提到里尔登先生名字，”她说，脸上带着淡淡笑容，脸上露出那种令人愉快幽默感，“你打算再说些关于事情吗？

When I mentioned this, the writers said that Thomas Bell was atually a diffident man and a good executive.

当我提及此事， 撰稿人解释说， 托马斯·贝尔实际上是个内向人， 也是位优秀管理者。

Normally she was so diffident and self-deprecating, so ready to let someone else have the opinions.

通常，她是如此怯懦和自嘲，那么准备让别人发表意见。