Don’t be so diffident about your talents.

别对自己的才能如此缺乏信心.

Be diffident about doing sth

对于做某事缺乏信心

She is diffident about expressing her opinions.

她怯于表述自己的意见。

She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenance and innocent, diffident manner.

那妇人生着一副绵软多肉的体格，一张坦率开诚的面容，一种天真羞怯的神气

The network TV personality, who had been diffident earlier, had blossomed and was doing a skillful imitation of the U.S. President, supposedly on television with a carmaker and an environmentalist, trying to appease both

那个电视明星，先前有点束手束脚，现在却大显身手，惟妙惟肖地学着美国总统。算是在电视里跟一个汽车制造商和一个环境污染问题专家在一起，竭力说好话给这两个人消气。

An able but diffident young student

能干但缺乏自信的青年学生

The quality or state of being diffident ;timidity or shyness.

缺乏自信;胆怯缺乏自信的性质或状态;胆小的或羞怯的

speak in a diffident manner

说话没有自信心的样子.

His fault is that he’s too diffident

他的过失是太缺乏自信啦。

He is diffident of his success

他对成功缺乏信心。

He is diffident about expressing his opinions.

他对于表达自己的意见感到胆怯。

He is diffident of his success.

他对于成功缺乏信心.

He was to diffident to do justice to himself

他过于羞怯，不能适当地处理自己。

While they speak softly, they are far from diffident

他们的声音虽小，却不含卑下。

He was too diffident to do justice to himself

他腼腆得使自己的表现不能恰如其分。

He was diffident and silent

他是那么冷淡，那么默默无声。

He was too diffident to express his opinion.

他太不自信，不敢发表自己的见解。

He looked diffident , and amiable, and independent, and he, too, was evidently English

他显得忸怩羞怯，又和蔼又任性，显然他也是一个英国人。

He was a little diffident ,but quite self-possessed.

他有点信心不足，但很镇静。

He is diffident about expressing his opinions in the public.

他在公开场合表达自己的意见感到胆怯。

I was diffident about saying so.

我不好意思这麽说。

I am fond of a diffident way which I see you to exhibit

我喜欢您表现出来的谦卑。

Having or proceeding from a disinclination to call attention to oneself;retiring or diffident .

羞怯的有或出自不愿引起别人对自己注意的;避世的或缺乏自信的

Dick was always diffident when it came to staff matters, and not been able to summon up the gumption to bang the table

遇到手下的人事问题时，迪克总是缺乏信心。他不能拿出气概，一锤定音。

This boy, still midget but already diffident with a kind of rangy ease, is the best of the six.

这个男孩是那六个中打得最棒的，他个头虽然不高，但瘦长的四肢已使他羞怯中显出几分自如。

||1: Ever diffident and retiring, he wished to be remembered only for his “moment in anthropological thought”: an effort at systematising cultures as profound, he hoped, as what Marx had done for ideologies, or Freud for dreams. ||2: Proselytising was left to his difficult, often beautiful, books and the pages of his journal L’Homme. ||3: The existentialists, and all who thought that man should be studied as an individual rather than en bloc, noisily attacked him. He dismissed their “shop-girl metaphysics”.

||1:列维-斯特劳斯向来谦虚谨慎、不喜抛头露面，他只希冀于人们记住自己在“人类学思想史上那片刻的辉煌”：即针对文化的系统化作出的努力；他希望自己的研究能够引起像马克思之于意识形态、弗洛伊德之于梦的诠释一样深刻的影响。||2:改变人们思想观念的任务就交给了他那些通常装帧精美、却异常艰深的著作，还有他在自己创办的《人类》学刊中发表过的文章。||3:存在主义哲学家和所有认为人应该作为个体而非群体进行研究的人都七嘴八舌地攻击他。他对这些人的想法很是不屑，认为是“商店女店员式的形而上”。

The country is certainly fed up with calls to fix the world: Democrats and Republicans alike say it is not America’s job to take the lead in solving international problems.|| But far from thanking Mr Obama for delivering the cautious, diffident foreign policy that such polls would seem to demand, voters are turning on him.|| The Guantanamo saga helps to explain this puzzle. Americans do not want endless war. But right now, many put feeling safe above the pursuit of peace.

1:美国的确厌倦了应召拯救世界，对此，民主共和两党都说，美国没有义务来带头解决国际问题。||2:但选民并没有感谢奥巴马让美国变得更谨慎，相反，缺乏自信的外交政策让选民开始与奥巴马反目。||3:而关塔那摩闹剧能够帮助解决这一谜团。||4:美国人不想要无休无止的战争，但现在，许多人比起追求和平，更关心安全感。

||1:[In any case, some of those effects might be beneficial—a longer growing season, for example, and fewer deaths from the cold.||2:Environmentalism struck him as more a religion than a science.||3:Not that he was against religion; he supported it, in a diffident Church of England way.||4:To get back beyond the Big Bang, certainly, you needed religion.||5:But the real faith that sustained him was a boundless belief in the power and possibilities of science.||6:He had witnessed at first hand how it could give mere mortals the power to destroy their own world.||7:Perhaps they could use science to save it, too—or, if not, leave it for another altogether.

||1:无论如何，气候变化的一些影响可能是有益的-生长周期更长，因寒冷死去的人更少。||2:他认为环保主义更多的是一种宗教，而不是一种科学。||3: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。||4:当然，为了回到宇宙大爆炸之后，你需要宗教。||5:但是支撑他的真正信念是对科学的力量和可能性的无限信念。||6:弗里曼亲眼目睹了科学如何赋予凡人摧毁自己世界的力量。||7:也许他们也可以用科学来拯救世界——或者，如果没有做到的话，把它完全留给另一个人来做。

Aristocratic languor, critics thought, made him too diffident sometimes on the field.

高贵的慵懒，批评家的思想，使他有时候在球场上与众不同。

The Communist Party is diffident about laying claim to any development model that other countries might copy.

共产党在宣称自身拥有可供其他国家效仿的发展模式上十分低调。

be diffident about

vt.对于...缺乏自信心