reluctant

柯林斯词典

1. ADJ If you are reluctant to do something, you are unwilling to do it and hesitate before doing it, or do it slowly and without enthusiasm. 不願意的; 勉強的
Mr. Spero was reluctant to ask for help. 斯珀洛先生不願意請求幫助。
2. reluctantlyADV 不願意地; 勉強地[ADV with v]
We have reluctantly agreed to let him go. 我們已勉強同意讓他走了。

The United Nations was reluctant to get its forces embroiled in civil war .
I'm a bit reluctant to get involved .
The government was reluctant to sanction intervention in the crisis .
The government is understandably reluctant to do anything which might spoil the harmonious relations between the country's ethnic groups .
A mother was coaxing her reluctant child into the water .