踌躇不前

• He finds that students who were easy to teach because they succeeded in putting everything they had been taught into practice , hesitate when confronted with the vast untouched area of english vocabulary and usage which falls outside the scope of basic textbooks
  译文：他发现原来比较容易教的学生现在踌躇不前了：原来比较容易教是因为他们能把教给他们的所有东西都付诸实践；现在踌躇不前是因为他们面对着大量的在基础教科书上所没有接触过的英语词汇和习惯用法。
• Thus , with traditional buddhist pietism , we can embrace the religious side of faith and devotion , but shy off from the hard - headed world - view and the task of critical inquiry ; or , with modern buddhist apologetics , we can extol the dhamma ' s empiricism and resemblance to science , but stumble embarrassingly over the religious side
  这样一来，在传统的崇拜式佛教里，我们包容了信仰的宗教性与崇敬那一面，却回避了脚踏实地的世界观与批评探索的任务;或者，为现代佛法作辩，我们可以赞扬佛法的经验性、与科学的相似性，但在宗教那一面尴尬地踌躇不前。