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feckless

英 [ˈfekləs]

美 [ˈfekləs]

adj.  品格差的; 不负责任的

GRETEM8

BNC.20276 / COCA.25428

牛津词典

    adj.

    • 品格差的;不负责任的
      having a weak character; not behaving in a responsible way
      1. Her husband was a charming, but lazy and feckless man.
        她的丈夫讨人喜欢,但却是个懒惰没有出息的人。

    柯林斯词典

    • ADJ-GRADED 无能的;软弱的;不中用的
      If you describe someone asfeckless, you mean that they lack determination or strength, and are unable to do anything properly.
      1. He regarded the young man as feckless and irresponsible.
        他认为这个年轻人不光无能,还不负责任。

    英英释义

    adj

    • generally incompetent and ineffectual
      1. feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
      2. inept handling of the account
      Synonym:inept
    • not fit to assume responsibility

      双语例句

      • From the U.S., the European debt crisis can seem like a black comedy populated by regional stereotypes: iron-fisted Anglo-Saxons, feckless Mediterraneans, and haughty Brussels bureaucrats.
        在美国看来,欧债危机就像是由地域特色鲜明的老套人物扮演的一场荒诞喜剧:吝啬的盎格鲁撒克逊人、不负责任的地中海人以及盛气凌人的布鲁塞尔官僚。
      • And Washington is annoyed at Europe's feckless attempts at economic reforms.
        美国方面对欧盟不痛不痒的经济改革也懊恼不已。
      • The fact that Europeans led the way in calling for a campaign in Libya that they are incapable of conducting alone, has merely re-enforced the American view that the European arm of NATO is, to varying degrees, feckless and unreliable.
        欧洲带头呼吁对利比亚实施干预、而自己又无力独自采取行动,这一事实的作用只是再次强化了美国的如下观点:北约的欧洲部队或多或少是低效和不可靠的。
      • America may wish to pivot towards Asia and Europe may be turned inward, but the Middle East offers no respite to international or regional actors. It is equally unforgiving of the reckless and the feckless.
        美国可能希望把重心转向亚洲,欧洲的关注焦点可能转向内部,但中东不给国际或者区域参与者丝毫喘息之机,也不原谅任何鲁莽者和软弱者。
      • That has not stopped Mr Romney from calling Mr Obama's foreign policy "feckless" and accusing him of "an eloquently justified surrender of world leadership".
        这并没有阻止罗姆尼先生称奥巴马的外交政策软弱无力,并且指控他是一个世界领导阶层里非常善辩的把自己的妥协合理化的人。
      • Her husband was a charming, but lazy and feckless man.
        她的丈夫讨人喜欢,但却是个懒惰没有出息的人。
      • At present, the supervision of the procuratorial organ for commutation and parole is feckless in practice, because the legal regulations and the procuratorial organ are imperfect.
        目前在实践中,由于法律规定不完善等客观方面的原因,还有检察机关自身的主观方面原因,造成了检察机关对减刑假释的检察监督不力,在很多环节都出现了检察监督缺位的状况。
      • Indeed, the vast bulk of the official loans to Greece were not made for its benefit at all, but for that of its feckless private creditors.
        实际上,很大一部分发放给希腊的官方贷款根本不是为了希腊的利益,而是为了让无能的私营部门债权人全身而退。
      • Fingers have been pointed at supine regulators, greedy bankers and investors, naive consumers and feckless politicians.
        人们已经把矛头指向了松懈的监管机构、贪婪的银行家和投资者、天真的消费者以及软弱无能的政治家。
      • That voracious demand relentlessly pushes up prices – and Grantham emphasizes that supply and demand, rather than evil speculators or feckless central bankers, are the driving forces here, whatever posture our president might choose to take.
        这样旺盛的需求持续推高了价格&格雷厄姆强调,推高价格的是供需因素,而不是讨厌的投机者或不负责任的央行。