Mrs.Penniman, moreover, though she had a good deal of a certain sort of artificial assurance, shrunk, for indefinable reasons, from presenting herself to her brother as a fountain of instruction.

• 更甚之，佩尼曼夫人，虽然多少有点矫揉造作的自信，但不知是何原因，在他哥哥的面前却显得畏首畏脚。