Remember the dictum our professor taught us, 'diffidence leads to envy which gives rise to spite.(記住教授告訴我們的名言：缺乏自信會導致嫉妒，進而產生怨恨。)

The teachers also rated conduct problems - restlessness, daydreaming, disobedience, lying, etc. - and emotional problems - anxiety, fearfulness, diffidence, avoidance of attention, etc。(同時，教師們也就行為問題(多動、走神、叛逆、撒謊等)以及情緒問題(焦慮、恐懼、怯懦、無法集中精神等)打出了不同分數。)

Diffidence is one barrier to one's success.(自卑是成功的一大障礙。)

There's a great deal of modesty and diffidence in my world.(在我的世界里，有著許多謙遜和缺乏自信。)

There was an unceremonious directness, a searching, decided steadfastness in his gaze now, which told that intention, and not diffidence, had hitherto kept it averted from the stranger.(目光里有一種不拘禮節的直率，一種銳利、明確的堅定，說明他一直避開陌生人不是出于靦腆，而是故意的。)

He failed through diffidence.(他因缺乏自信而失敗。)

He tapped on the door, opened it, and entered with a certain diffidence.(他敲了敲門，打開了門，帶著一些羞怯走了進去。)

The boy was so diffidence and not good at talking that he did not know how to express his love to this girl.(小伙子性格內向，不善言辭，他不知道如何向女孩子表達他的愛慕之意。)

What women mistake as thoughtlessness is often just diffidence.(女性誤以為是考慮不周的事情往往只是缺乏自信。)

He had never thought of his sweetheart as of so superior a being, and he was instantly taken with a feeling of diffidence.(他從來沒有想到他的愛人會這樣的華貴，竟使他的內心立刻產生了一種自慚形穢的感覺。)

I feel a certain diffidence about attempting to speak of the book at all.