"I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack," he said diffidently.

“我曾经想过称自己为红手杰克。”他胆怯地说。

"I don't suppose," Tootles said diffidently [bashfully or timidly], "that I could be father."

“我想，”图图胆怯地说，“我不能当父亲。”

The country became a full NATO member in 1999 and diffidently joined the European Union in 2004.

波兰于一九九九年成为北约组织的正式成员国，并于二零零四年忧心忡忡地加入了欧洲国家联盟。

By the end of the summer, he said, almost diffidently, most of them would be either killed or captured.

他略微缺乏底气地说到今年夏天结束的时候大部分敌人将会遭到歼灭或捕获。

"When will we be married?" she asked, diffidently, forgetting in her difficult situation that she had hoped he took her to be Drouet's wife.

“我们什么时候结婚呢？”她犹犹豫豫地问。在这为难的情势下，她忘了自己原来是希望他把她当作杜洛埃太太的。