难以启齿 meaning in English
be too shy to speak out; have a bone in the throat; hard to speak out; too embarrassed to mention sth.; too embarrassed to say it
Examples
- It looked as though he found it hard to answer .
他好象觉得难以启齿。 - It was fatso who first spoke of the unspeakable thing .
这件难以启齿的事还是让胖嫂先说穿了。 - The words she would like to have said were too violent for her .
她下面要说的话简直难以启齿了。 - She held back from telling him what she thought of him .
她要把自己对他的看法告诉他，但又觉得难以启齿。 - She was ashamed to tell her father that she had failed
她难以启齿告诉父亲她失败了。