《苔丝》词汇: coyness, circumspectly, coquette, scrupulousness，
His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative; and it was little enough for him not to know that in the manner of the present negative there lay a great exception to the dallyings of coyness.
他和女人打过交道，知道否定往往不过是肯定的前奏。 但是这次他经验不足，看不出这个否定是个例外，并非是那种半推半就，故作忸怩。（第28章）
