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

• 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。
• 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。
• Two years of feckless negotiations
  拖了两年毫无结果的谈判
• 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。
• Ms Merkel is not about to reward the feckless.
  默克尔不会奖赏不负责任者。
• 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。
• A feckless son is a disgrace to his parents.
  儿子没出息，父母脸上也无光。
• 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。
• 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。
• Susan's fellow monsters have a feckless charm, but they'reall but useless in approaching the job at hand.
  苏珊的怪物伙伴都是外强中亁，在处理手头上的工作时都无能。