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

• 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。
• 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。
• The other members of the group whom Jordan meets are the Gipsy rafael, amiable but feckless, and pablo's wife pilar, an ugly woman who is far braver than her husband.
  乔丹见到的游击队其他成员有友善厚道但缺乏能力的吉普赛人拉斐尔和帕布洛的妻子皮拉尔。皮拉尔这个女人相貌虽丑，却比她丈夫勇敢得多。
• 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。
• Ms Merkel is not about to reward the feckless.
  默克尔不会奖赏不负责任者。
• By other measures, curiously, teenagers are still feckless.
  但奇怪的是，从其他方面来看青少年仍有其问题。
• 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。
• Two years of feckless negotiations
  拖了两年毫无结果的谈判
• 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。
• In those days he was a feckless and poverty-stricken young drop-out.
  那些日子里，他是一个无精打采的穷困的退学生。