Casual
['kæʒjʊəl;-zj-] or ['kæʒʊəl]
解释:
(adj.) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; 'a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws'; 'a passing glance'; 'perfunctory courtesy' .
(adj.) marked by blithe unconcern; 'an ability to interest casual students'; 'showed a casual disregard for cold weather'; 'an utterly insouciant financial policy'; 'an elegantly insouciant manner'; 'drove his car with nonchalant abandon'; 'was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner' .
(adj.) not showing effort or strain; 'a difficult feat performed with casual mastery'; 'careless grace' .
(adj.) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; 'casual clothes'; 'everyday clothes' .
(adj.) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; 'seek help from casual passers-by'; 'a casual meeting'; 'a chance occurrence' .
(adj.) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; 'a casual remark'; 'information collected by casual methods and in their spare time' .
(adj.) occurring from time to time; 'casual employment'; 'a casual correspondence with a former teacher'; 'an occasional worker' .
约瑟夫编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
(a.) Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.
(n.) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
吉莉安手打
同义词及近义词：
a. Accidental, fortuitous, incidental, contingent, that happens by chance.
整理:斯特拉
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Accidental, occasional, incidental, contingent, unforeseen, fortuitous
ANT:Regular, ordinary, systematic, periodic, certain, fixed,[See CASUALTY]
科琳录入
解释:
adj. accidental: unforeseen: occasional.—n. a chance or occasional visitor labourer pauper &c.—n. Cas′ualism the belief that chance governs all things.—adv. Cas′ually in a casual manner.—n. Cas′ualty that which falls out: an accident: a misfortune: (pl.) losses of a military force by death desertion &c.: an incidental charge or payment.—Casualties of superiority in the feudal law of Scotland such emoluments arising to the superior as depend on uncertain events—those of non-entry relief or composition and escheat alone remaining but considerably modified by the Conveyancing Act of 1874.—Casualty ward the ward in a hospital in which accidents are treated; Casual ward a ward set apart for the use of those who are only occasionally in destitution.
编辑:娜塔莎
例句:
- For sound, whether it be the noise of an oarlock or a companion’s casual remark, can be heard more than four times as easily by the fish in the water beneath than it can up above in the air. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The circumstance on which my story rests was suggested in casual conversation. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Why not be casual, drifting along, taking all for what it was worth? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- From within the city neither shout nor cry, nor aught except the casual howling of a dog, broke the noon-day stillness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- So I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish Woman nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- It will be remembered that many of the earlier experiments were based on the use of strips of platinum; while other rare metals were the subject of casual trial. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- There is a variety of testimony to the effect that not only musical sounds, but stray words and phrases, were actually transmitted with mediocre, casual success. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I, as my nature prompted, would not prognosticate evil, but explained it away as a mere casual incident. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- She broke off, still twinkling at him, and asked, with the casual irrelevance of old age: Now, why in the world didn't you marry my little Ellen? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The name of the ticker came through the casual remark of an observer to whom the noise was the most striking feature of the mechanism. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- What is casual and inconstant gives but little joy, and less pride. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Then Gudrun asked, in a voice that was quite cool and casual, as if resuming a casual conversation: 'Was the girl a model? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- They'll make you pay, as fur as your money will go,' pursued the Deputy, 'for your relief as a Casual and for your being passed to your Parish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The field of optics is so large that many interesting branches can receive only a casual mention. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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