Unwillingness

(noun.) the trait of being unwilling; 'his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made'; 'in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton'.

昌西整理

• Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We must be going with the rest,' observed Mrs Lammle, rising with a show of unwillingness, amidst a general dispersal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The remissness of our people in paying taxes is highly blameable, the unwillingness to pay them is still more so. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• After another silence, the husband of the absent woman, turning to me again, answered me with his usual grumbling unwillingness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Why else should he have shewn such unwillingness to accept your invitation here? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Observant of his unwillingness to mar the effect by opening it again, Defarge said, Go on, Jacques. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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