Negligence
['neglɪdʒ(ə)ns] or ['nɛɡlɪdʒəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.
(noun.) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern.
海尔格校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
(n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
(n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
迭戈手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Neglect (as a habit), carelessness, thoughtlessness, remissness, heedlessness, disregard, inattention, LACHES.
安吉莉娜整理
解釋/意思:
n. fact or quality of being negligent: want of proper care: habitual neglect: a single act of carelessness or neglect a slight: carelessness about dress manner &c.: omission of duty esp. such care for the interests of others as the law may require—(Shak.) Neglec′tion.—adj. Neg′ligent neglecting: careless: inattentive: disregarding ceremony or fashion.—adv. Neg′ligently.—adj. Neg′ligible.—adv. Neg′ligibly.
希勒尔錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- The teeth, through negligence and ignorance, receive less attention among the majority of people than any other subject of a personal character. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- In so valuable a produce, the loss occasioned by negligence is so great, as to force even the most careless to attention. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Perhaps it is only negligence. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- After entertaining company, when dinner was over he would go out to correct any negligence in the service with a leather thong. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They amended and reconstructed, they had their fashions and their phases of negligence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- If it is very much overpaid, it is apt to suffer, perhaps still more, by their negligence and idleness. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
校對:玛拉