Inattentive
[ɪnə'tentɪv] or [,ɪnə'tɛntɪv]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) showing a lack of attention or care; 'inattentive students'; 'an inattentive babysitter' .
(adj.) not showing due care or attention; 'inattentive students'; 'an inattentive babysitter'; 'neglectful parents' .
艾琳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Unobservant, unobserving, unmindful, inadvertent, heedless, thoughtless, regardless, careless, negligent, remiss, unwatchful, inconsiderate, absent, absent-minded, caught napping.
乔安娜錄入
解釋/意思:
adj. careless not fixing the mind to attention.—ns. Inatten′tion Inattent′iveness.—adv. Inattent′ively.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I had not, Miss Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between him and some part of this family in the summer and autumn. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Women can't draw--their minds are too flighty, and their eyes are too inattentive. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- His mother, apparently inattentive, at once understood what was meant, and seeing the hold we had upon her, yielded the point to us. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- We consider you an inattentive reskel,' said the gentleman in the orange plush. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say; and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she thought must interest. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I am not romantic, Fanny went on to say, while sitting in a musing sort of attitude and seeming quite inattentive to my last wise speech. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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