Imprudence
[ɪm'prʊdns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
桃瑞丝整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Indiscretion, heedlessness, carelessness, rashness, inconsiderateness, improvidence, want of forethought.
黛安娜校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I suspect some imprudence of Mr. Franklin's on the Continent--with a woman or a debt at the bottom of it--had followed him to England. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The hopelessness and the imprudence of this proceeding failed to strike me before I had actually written the opening lines of the letter. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Then the poor old gentleman revealed the whole truth to her--that his son was still paying the annuity, which his own imprudence had flung away. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her imprudence, I am happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to herself. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Well, said Miss Crawford, and do you not scold us for our imprudence? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- By means of those cash accounts, every merchant can, without imprudence, carry on a greater trade than he otherwise could do. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the imprudence of such a match! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- This may sometimes, perhaps, be done without any imprudence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Even those Scotch banks which never distinguished themselves by their extreme imprudence, were sometimes obliged to employ this ruinous resource. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I'm afraid, Mr. van der Luyden said, that Madame Olenska's kind heart may have led her into the imprudence of calling on Mrs. Beaufort. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Great imprudence, Master Copperfield. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was the imprudence which had brought things to extremity, and obliged her brother to give up every dearer plan in order to fly with her. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I see the imprudence of it. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave so precious a thing in the office behind me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Her discretions interested him almost as much as her imprudences: he was so sure that both were part of the same carefully-elaborated plan. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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