Improvident
[ɪm'prɒvɪd(ə)nt] or [ɪm'prɑvədənt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
达雷尔手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Shiftless, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, without forecast, without foresight, careless of the future.
校對:罗尼
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Imprudent, i_wasteful, prodigal, reckless, careless, thoughtless, shiftless
ANT:Prudent, careful, saving, economical, provident,[See COMMON]
亨廷顿編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. not provident or prudent: wanting foresight: thoughtless.—adj. Improvide′ (Spens.) not provided against.—n. Improv′idence.—adv. Improv′idently.
校對:罗赞
例句/造句/用法:
- But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- As to an individual, ma'am,' said Bitzer, dropping his voice and drawing nearer, 'he is as improvident as any of the people in this town. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Improvident and self-indulgent were his words. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- This complaint, however, of the scarcity of money, is not always confined to improvident spendthrifts. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I thought you was poor, my improvident friend! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Because they are improvident,' said Mrs. Sparsit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I do not deny that he is improvident. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There, said she--there is a providence for the improvident. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
校對:罗赞