Indifferent
[ɪn'dɪf(ə)r(ə)nt] or [ɪn'dɪfrənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) showing no care or concern in attitude or action; 'indifferent to the sufferings of others'; 'indifferent to her plea' .
(adj.) neither too great nor too little; 'a couple of indifferent hills to climb' .
(adj.) being neither good nor bad; 'an indifferent performance'; 'a gifted painter but an indifferent actor'; 'her work at the office is passable'; 'a so-so golfer'; 'feeling only so-so'; 'prepared a tolerable dinner'; 'a tolerable working knowledge of French' .
(adj.) characterized by a lack of partiality; 'a properly indifferent jury'; 'an unbiasgoted account of her family problems' .
(adj.) marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another; 'indifferent about which book you would give them'; 'was indifferent to their acceptance or rejection of her invitation' .
(adj.) fairly poor to not very good; 'has an indifferent singing voice'; 'has indifferent qualifications for the job' .
安妮編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
(a.) Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre.
(a.) Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial.
(a.) Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family.
(a.) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested.
(adv.) To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.
沙琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Neutral, impartial, disinterested, unbiassed.[2]. Unconcerned, unmoved, apathetic, cool, inattentive, dead, heedless, regardless, unmindful, not interested.[3]. Equal, all the same, just the same, all one, the same thing.[4]. Passable, tolerable, middling, ordinary, so-so, not very bad.
錄入:凯思琳
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Lukewarm, careless, unconcerned,[See APATHETIC]
編輯:塔比瑟
解釋/意思:
adj. without importance: uninteresting: of a middle quality: neutral: unconcerned.—n. one who is indifferent or apathetic: that which is indifferent.—ns. Indiff′erence Indiff′erency Indiff′erentism indifference: (theol.) the doctrine that religious differences are of no moment: (metaph.) the doctrine of absolute identity—i.e. that to be in thought and to exist are one and the same thing; Indiff′erentist.—adv. Indiff′erently in an indifferent manner: tolerably: passably: without distinction impartially.
整理:肯尼思
娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
埃斯特尔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- It will then be publicly seen that, on both sides, we meet only as common and indifferent acquaintance. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Secondly, A certain number of sides, which are supposed indifferent. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But (with a smile) if Colonel Campbell should have employed a careless friend, and if it should prove to have an indifferent tonewhat shall I say? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Nothing more was said on this theme, and Mr. Harthouse was soon idly gay on indifferent subjects. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- You may have a friendship for a man, while he is almost indifferent to you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She was an altered creature, quieted, stupefied, indifferent to everything that passed. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She was quite hard and cold and indifferent. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Thy language, answered Rowena, hath in its indifferent bluntness something which cannot be reconciled with the horrors it seems to express. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- No introduction of the business could have been less like that which Lydgate had intended; but her indifferent manner had been too provoking. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When you and your brother are friends, his doings are indifferent to you. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Having but an indifferent opinion of women, he always suspected them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In his field as inventor and man of science he stands as clear-cut and secure as the lighthouse on a rock, and as indifferent to the tumult around. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Indifferent to the rain, and moving with a quick determined step, she struck into a side-path parallel with the ride. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- They sat talking on indifferent subjects for about an hour, and then drove off in his lordship's curricle. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Why, if he came only to be silent, grave, and indifferent, said she, did he come at all? 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Even Elizabeth began to fear--not that Bingley was indifferent--but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He could speak to me because I am an indifferent person. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not so all of them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Not a bad notion though, if you want to look indifferent in driving a bargain. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Where is the author who can be indifferent to the genuine unhackneyed praise bestowed on his own composition? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- No, indeedyou shall be indifferent to me, as the shabbiest bouquet in your pyramid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Archer had never been more indifferent to the requirements of form; but his impulse to do Lawrence Lefferts a physical injury was only momentary. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He loved his mistress and John--the man who fed him--but was mostly indifferent to the rest of the world. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They themselves care only for making money, and are as indifferent as the pauper to the cultivation of virtue. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- All such circumstances were indifferent to him, so that he did his duty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He found the government of Spain indifferent to the railway, and there were many doubts as to whether there would be sufficient traffic to pay the cost of construction. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He describes the boy of sixteen as engrossed intensely in his experiments and scientific reading, and somewhat indifferent, for this reason, to his duties as operator. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He lifted his eyebrows with a negligent, indifferent expression. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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