inhibited
1. 抑制：内倾人格特征是:抑制(inhibited)、羞怯(shy)、缄默(reserved)和严肃(sober). 有重要的一点需要认识到,只有在极端的情况下我们才能谈及人格类型. 事实上,荣格曾提出过一种称作外倾-内倾的双极人格尺度. 大多数人不是处于两极的一个极端或另一个极端之上,
2. 羞怯的：inhibit 抑制 | inhibited 羞怯的 | inhibiting 抑制作用的
1. 受抑制的;受约束的;拘谨的
If you say that someone is inhibited, you mean they find it difficult to behave naturally and show their feelings, and that you think this is a bad thing.
e.g. We are rather inhibited about touching each other.
我们对身体接触感觉很不自在。
1. Courtship in later life is often inhibited by such practical concerns as children's inheritances and their reactions to stepparents who are total strangers.
2. Not getting enough is linked to a host of problems, from car crashes as drivers doze off to crippled memory and inhibited creativity.
3. Dr Byrne noted that one benefit the team found was that the phytonutrients in plums inhibited breast cancer growth without adversely affecting normal cell growth.
4. These disparate agendas have inhibited the Bush Administration and Congress from speaking with one voice.
5. inhibited的解释
5. I was just worried they were a bit inhibited in the big games.
6. Senior leader Jia Qinglin said yesterday that special measures should be taken to boost the development of areas inhibited by people of ethnic minorities.
7. My preconceptions of Chinese people were that they were socially conservative and more inhibited than Westerners.
8. Yau and Angela Ng both believe an inhibited atmosphere exists in the city with regards to sex.
adj
1. held back or restrained or prevented
e.g. in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear