Negligent
['neɡlɪdʒənt] or ['nɛɡlɪdʒənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; 'negligent parents'; 'negligent of detail'; 'negligent in his correspondence' .
編輯:诺拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Careless (habitually), thoughtless, heedless, remiss, regardless, inattentive, neglectful.
校對:尼古拉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- He was mentally the new thing in history, negligent of and rather ignorant of the older things out of which his new world had arisen. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The person who had been called Misse Cassy now came forward, and, with a haughty, negligent air, delivered her basket. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Certainly; and if he is lazy or negligent, I will write his excuses myself. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He lifted his eyebrows with a negligent, indifferent expression. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He also insisted upon a future life, the fear of hell for the negligent and evil, and the reservation of paradise for the believer in the One God. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- How could I be so ridiculous and negligent? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In the composition of this statute, the legislature itself seems to have been as negligent as the copiers were in the transcription of the other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They were dressed to correspond, though in a most untidy and negligent way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Negligent, indeed, she was not. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- True, says the negligent lounger; picking cotton isn't hard work. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Holmes strolled round the house with his hands in his pockets and a negligent air which was unusual with him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- You will often find me awkward, but never negligent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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