Apathy
['æpəθɪ] or ['æpəθi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.
(noun.) an absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
赫克托整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
校對:西尔玛
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Insensibility, impassibility, dispassion, dulness, torpor, coldness, phlegm, indifference, unconcern, unfeelingness, stoicism, want of feeling.
校對:瓦珥
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Indifference, insensibility, {unfeelingness_in_company}, insusceptibility,unconcern, sluggishness, hebetude
ANT:Anxiety, care, eagerness, interestedness, sensibility, susceptibility,sensitiveness, irritability, curiosity
編輯:莉齐
解釋/意思:
n. want of feeling: absence of passion: indifference.—adjs. Apathet′ic Apathet′ical (rare).—adv. Apathet′ically.
整理:肯尼思
例句/造句/用法:
- His heart awoke from its apathy to a warm excitement, and, jumping to his feet, he said aloud, I knew she was sure to come. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I hate my room at Aunt Julia's--so I came here---- She stirred suddenly, broke from her apathy, and clung to Gerty in a fresh burst of fear. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The first of these is the extraordinary apathy of the population to political events. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Is not the listless apathy of the Chinese due to a diet of rice? Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Being decidedly nettled herself, and longing to see him shake off the apathy that so altered him, Amy sharpened both tongue and pencil, and began. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She sat in a fullness and a pure potency that was like apathy, mindless and immobile. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- No space of deaf apathy followed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She sank into a kind of furious apathy, a state of inert anger against fate. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- To conquer it men turn generally to their ancient comforter, self-deception: they complain about the stolid, inert masses and the apathy of the people. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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