inhibited
adj
(a) (of people) unable to relax or express one's feelings in a natural and spontaneous way (指人)拘谨的, 不能自然表达感情的
She's too inhibited to laugh at jokes about sex. 她很拘谨, 听到性爱笑话也不笑.
(b) (of behaviour) not relaxed or spontaneous (指举止)不轻松的, 不自然的
a nervous inhibited laugh 紧张而矜持的笑.
The house moved and a few pictures fell off the wall, but that was all.
房屋也在动,几幅画从墙上掉下来,但只是这些。
Do you remember one afternoon ten years ago when I came to your house and borrowed a necklace of yours? Pierre, my husband, was working in a government office. We'd been invited to a ball at the palace so I needed to borrow some jewellery.