| 词汇 | haphazard |
| 释义 | haphazard adjective disapprovinguk /ˌhæpˈhæz.əd/ us /ˌhæpˈhæz.ɚd/ not having an obvious order or plan: 无秩序的，无计划的，随意的 He tackled the problem in a typically haphazard manner.像往常一样，他处理这个问题时也很没有章法。 happening by chance with no cause or reason randomIt was a random encounter between two long-lost friends. chanceA chance meeting brought them back together. arbitraryIt seems like the decision to cancel such a successful TV programme was completely arbitrary. haphazardHer cabinets were stuffed with a haphazard jumble of books, clothes, tins of soup, and papers. coincidentalAny similarity between the characters in this book and real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental. inadvertentA good editor will catch and correct all inadvertent typos in a text. Chance and randomness accident accident of birth aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness coincidence crapshoot even money fluke fluky luck luck into something more by accident than designidiom more by luck than judgmentidiom non-purposive randomness serendipitous serendipitously sortition stumble into something Related wordhaphazardly haphazard | American Dictionaryhaphazard adjective us/hæpˈhæz·ərd/ lacking order or purpose; not planned: Haphazard record-keeping made it difficult for the agency to keep track of its clients. Examples of haphazardhaphazard This has proved possible in the past, but on a somewhat haphazard basis. Ignoring them simply means that the unfolding of the composed space will be either haphazard or, at worst, amorphous. When we turn from galaxies to the distribution of galaxies, the distribution does not seem to exhibit design - it looks rather random and haphazard. Rents collapsed, rent collection was haphazard, neglect to pay was rampant, urban cash circulation declined, capital accumulation stagnated and investment was severely limited. But the most serious problems in the book are the omissions and the haphazard citations. Whereas doctors had a standard calculation chart for physical injuries, the evaluation of psychological disability remained haphazard and subjective. We have to treat other people as broadly rational, for if they were not, then their reactions would be haphazard and unpredictable. The allegations against her seem too extreme, and the choice of targets too haphazard to justify such a conclusion. This is, in our opinion, linguistically haphazard and risky. We would perhaps expect no less in a situation where practices were extra-legal, but the impact of haphazard accounting is potentially profound. However, haphazard privatisation may lead to a situation where parastatal inefficiencies are replaced with private sector excesses. In contrast, the sources upon which they drew for writing on animals were very different and were more haphazard and irregular. Political reform was enacted through a haphazard process of compromise and confusion. Other than this, there was nothing in his haphazard interventions to indicate any systematic grasp of or clear directives for coherent policy-making. There was, however, a line between a haphazard, absurd system and a bankrupt one. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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