Negligence
['neglɪdʒ(ə)ns] or ['nɛɡlɪdʒəns]
解释:
(noun.) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.
(noun.) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern.
海尔格校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
(n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
(n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
迭戈手打
同义词及近义词:
n. Neglect (as a habit), carelessness, thoughtlessness, remissness, heedlessness, disregard, inattention, LACHES.
安吉莉娜整理
解释:
n. fact or quality of being negligent: want of proper care: habitual neglect: a single act of carelessness or neglect a slight: carelessness about dress manner &c.: omission of duty esp. such care for the interests of others as the law may require—(Shak.) Neglec′tion.—adj. Neg′ligent neglecting: careless: inattentive: disregarding ceremony or fashion.—adv. Neg′ligently.—adj. Neg′ligible.—adv. Neg′ligibly.
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例句:
- The teeth, through negligence and ignorance, receive less attention among the majority of people than any other subject of a personal character. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- In so valuable a produce, the loss occasioned by negligence is so great, as to force even the most careless to attention. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Perhaps it is only negligence. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- After entertaining company, when dinner was over he would go out to correct any negligence in the service with a leather thong. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- They amended and reconstructed, they had their fashions and their phases of negligence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- If it is very much overpaid, it is apt to suffer, perhaps still more, by their negligence and idleness. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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