You can hold retiring as one small movement: a person taking a step back out of the front. English builds it on the -ing form of retire, and retire is about drawing back from where everything is happening. Step back from a group of people and you have the quiet personality. Step back from a post you hold and you have the person on their way out of the job. The word never says where they go next. It only draws the movement away from the front, and the two meanings are that same movement pointed at two different things.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
retiringadj/ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
- 1
introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
- I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring.
- My uncle, as I can remember, was retiring in his disposition, scarcely ever visiting any one and not more frequently receiving any visitors.
retiringnoun/ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
- 1
retirement
- One day of those his retirings ^([sic]), giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber.
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