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

• Two years of feckless negotiations
  拖了两年毫无结果的谈判
• 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。
• Between corrupt mortgage brokers, feckless lenders, and risk-happy hedge funds, there's plenty to keep investors and policymakers up at night.
  腐化的抵押经纪人、无能的放贷者和热衷于冒险的套利基金所组成的队伍中，有相当一部分让投资者和政策制定者一天忙到晚。
• There is some moral content to their critique it is wrong to make the prudent pay for the reckless and feckless but the policy solutions they seek are mostly a matter of dollars and cents.
  他们的批评带有一些道德成分让谨慎的人为鲁莽轻率的人付出代价是不对的然而他们所寻求的政治解决方案，却大多关系到真金白银。
• 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。
• Germany complains it is footing the bill for its feckless neighbours.
  德国抱怨，自己在为不负责任的邻居埋单。
• 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。
• I can hold a tea, soft: hand and feckless man, I do not look down on you.
  红袖任我抱了一会，轻声说：放手，没出息的男人，别让我看不起你。
• 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。
• 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。