Reticence

(n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.

(n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.

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• Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was an emphatic kind of reticence in Mr. Chichely's manner of speaking. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Anything to equal the determined reticence of Mr. Jaggers under that roof I never saw elsewhere, even in him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The Abbot replied with reticence, couldn't say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The other, ill-contented with this reticence, would have persisted in his questioning, but the old man, seeing this, shut him up sharply. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She showed her usual reticence to her parents, and only said, that if Lydgate had done as she wished he would have left Middlemarch long ago. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was a little more reticence now than formerly in Thomasin's manner towards her cousin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I cannot explain myself now, but I will some day, and then you will see I have a good reason for my reticence. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Mr Inspector replied, with due generality and reticence, that it was always more likely that a man had done a bad thing than that he hadn't. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And on the most delicate of all personal subjects, the habit of proud suspicious reticence told doubly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Because I have strong reasons for such reticence, said the poet coldly; either trust me in all or not at all. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• In spite of her general reticence, she needed some one who would recognize her wrongs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In his usual mode of demanding an opinion (he had not reticence to wait till it was voluntarily offered) he asked, Were you interested? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In no duty towards others is there more need of reticence and self-restraint. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Ah, you didn't mean me to know it; I call that ungenerous reticence. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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