Слово "hesitation". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

He went back to bed but didn't sleep for a long time. In spite of how lousy he felt in the morning, breakfast tasted good. After a moment's hesitation, he followed his customary bowl of cornflakes with scrambled eggs. He was grumpily washing out the pan when Cindy came downstairs in her robe. "Richard Morrison! You haven't eaten an egg for break-fast since Hector was a pup. Morrison grunted. He considered since Hector was a pup to be one of Cindy's stupider sayings, on a par with I should smile and kiss a pig. "Have you smoked yet?" she asked, pouring orange juice. "No." "You'll be back on them by noon," she proclaimed airily. "Lot of goddamn help you are!" he rasped, rounding on her. "You and anyone else who doesn't smoke, you all think ah, never mind." He expected her to be angry, but she was looking at him F with something like wonder. "You're really serious," she said. "You really are." "You bet I am. " You'll never know how serious. I hope. "Poor baby," she said, going to him. "You look like death warmed over. But I'm very proud." Morrison held her tightly.

Most of the time they screamed abuse at him and threatened at every hesitation to deliver him over to the guards again; but sometimes they would suddenly change their tune, call him comrade, appeal to him in the name of Ingsoc and Big Brother, and ask him sorrowfully whether even now he had not enough loyalty to the Party left to make him wish to undo the evil he had done.

It was not that she showed any hesitation as to the issue, but rather that she seemed to wish not to miss any stage in the gradual reflowering of their intimacy.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

But the little woman evidently expected her to answer; so Dorothy said, with hesitation,

"Say a good fellow, if you want a phrase," returned Herbert, smiling, and clapping his hand on the back of mine—"a good fellow, with impetuosity and hesitation, boldness and diffidence, action and dreaming, curiously mixed in him."