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 hesitant ['hezitәnt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 迟疑的, 踌躇的, 犹豫不定的



    hesitant
    [ adj ]
    lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly
    <adj.all>


    Hesitant \Hes"i*tant\, a. [L. haesitans, p. pr. of haesitare:
    cf. F. h['e]sitant. See {Hesitate}.]
    1. Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

    2. Unready in speech. --Baxter.

    1. Nonetheless, most states have been hesitant to move into the services tax. Reasons often cited include a fear that the tax will add costs to businesses, which then will pass them along to consumers.
    2. Indeed, some experts are hesitant to call for further restrictions.
    3. High debt levels throughout the economy leave companies and consumers reluctant to borrow and banks hesitant to lend.
    4. Mrs. Thatcher is already under attack for what critics say is compromising British influence internationally by being out of step on South Africa and being hesitant about German unification.
    5. In time, it may come to be looked upon as the true foundation date of the domestic futures and options market, as the week that woke up hesitant hedgers among the corporate community and jolted them into into acquiring new treasury skills.
    6. But economists, market researchers and retailers say consumers are still hesitant about spending.
    7. And kinder and gentler only goes so far. "If you're too polite in life, you get stomped on," Bush told a youngster who was hesitant in raising her hand at a question-and-answer session at the White House.
    8. In earlier newspaper interviews, Phelan acknowledged wide discontent among investors and brokers about how program trading of huge blocs of stock can induce wild price swings that make many people hesitant about buying shares.
    9. Lessors are sure to be more hesitant in funding such transactions if they believe they won't get their monthly payments after a bankruptcy filing.
    10. He noted that Delaware courts have been hesitant to intervene in cases involving business judgments made after reasonable consideration, such as the Time-Warner merger.
    11. Some traders said investors were hesitant to make any bets yesterday because of concerns that losses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange could hurt U.S. stocks if nervous Japanese investors cash in their holdings here.
    12. I would also recommend firm fiscal action in other European countries, most notably Italy', he said. Firm action to reduce deficits was sensible despite signs of a hesitant world economic recovery.
    13. But it has been hesitant in its experiments with selling stocks and bonds, which many Chinese believe are incompatible with the goals of socialism.
    14. Brazilian processors had been hesitant to cut prices until after the USDA Florida October crop assessment, said one analyst, but with estimates circulating for a sizeable Florida crop they had little choice.
    15. Hauck said NASA has been hesitant to set a new date for the often-postponed launch because engineers are still troubleshooting two problems that developed during a test firing of Discovery's engines on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Aug. 10.
    16. But American businesses are hesitant to join such ventures while the political situation is unsettled, he said.
    17. "As a result of these hearings, future administrations will be very hesitant to engage in similar behavior; they'll fear the paralytic effect it might have on their administration," he says.
    18. Wall Street also rose briskly after a hesitant opening, further underpinning the London market's performance, he said.
    19. Once bitten by a false recovery, manufacturers and other businesses are "more hesitant to rehire people than they were in past slow-growth periods," Mr. Zukowski says.
    20. This problem vexes bars, which currently have to use metal "barrels" for carbonated beverages and makes consumers hesitant about buying large containers of beer and sodas.
    21. "The government was hesitant, but it now realizes that it must press financial reforms, including stock offerings," says Mr. Liu of the People's Bank.
    22. Even supposing industry's appetite for social costs varies with the cycle, the cyclical recovery this time may be slow and hesitant.
    23. The shipping group said that it expected further improvement in capacity on Far Eastern routes. ZURICH was lower on futures related selling and with the market hesitant ahead of today's US producer prices.
    24. I'm not promising anything." Some Labor leaders are hesitant about withdrawing from the government, notably Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Labor's No. 2 man.
    25. "Needless to say, curators and galleries were hesitant to display them," Osborne, whose organization is representing the artists.
    26. "But we only have about 50% of the corn planted." At the Chicago Board of Trade, however, grain traders are hesitant to bid up corn prices.
    27. Small clone-makers are hesitant to take on the kind of expensive legal battle that may be involved.
    28. Rodenburg is hesitant to talk about his good fortune at a time the drought could drive some of his neighbors out of business.
    29. Probably we could not afford increases. Q: Your critics say that the present coalition government has been hesitant in implementing reforms.
    30. The market opened on a hesitant note, but then jumped ahead at midsession as traders concluded that the Federal Reserve apparently had been encouraged to relax its credit policy in response to the Labor Department's employment data for June.
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