词汇 | indifferent |
释义 | indifferent adjective uk /ɪnˈdɪf.ər.ənt/ us /ɪnˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/ indifferentadjective (NOT INTERESTED)C2 not thinking about or interested in someone or something: 不感兴趣;不关心,冷淡 indifferent (to)Why don't you vote - how can you be so indifferent (to what is going on)?你为什么不投票?你怎能(对正在发生的事情)如此漠不关心! He found it very hard teaching a class full of indifferent teenagers.他发觉教一班无动于衷的十几岁的孩子真是头疼。 Lacking interest and enthusiasm apathetic apathy aridity blah blankly half-hearted half-heartedly hell incurious nonchalant nonchalantly nonconcern passionless politely unmotivated unromantically unserious unseriousness vacant your heart isn't in itidiom indifferentadjective (NOT GOOD)not good, but not very bad: 中等的,一般的 We didn't like the restaurant much - the food was indifferent and the service rather slow.我们不怎么喜欢这家餐馆——饭菜一般,上菜也相当慢。 Quite good, or not very good acceptable acceptably adequacy adequate adequately goodish government half decent iffy impure passably patchily patchiness patchy presentably scratch spotty the/your average bearidiom up to scratchidiom weedy Related wordindifferently indifferent | American Dictionaryindifferent adjective[ not gradable ] us/ɪnˈdɪf·rənt/ indifferentadjective[not gradable] (NOT INTERESTED)lacking in interest or feeling: an indifferent student She was utterly indifferent to his irritation. indifferentadjective[not gradable] (NOT GOOD OR BAD)neither very good nor very bad: No matter how good or bad or indifferent Foster is, he’ll always be my friend. Examples of indifferentindifferent We should not of course conclude that all pebbles or points of the compass are indifferent ! The imperial government, it was said, could not risk 'creating the impression that [it was] indifferent to the difficulties of the planting community'. Consumers are indifferent between physical capital and government bonds because the two assets have a common return and tax treatment. The work-first approach on the other hand is indifferent or even inimical to a self-development strategy, while fostering - albeit indirectly - a self-assertion strategy. Contemporary theoretical approaches are, for the most part, indifferent to the task of providing broad descriptive coverage. We call this unique transitive sequence, in which all bundles are linked by the binary relation (standing for "preferred or indifferent to"), a preference chain. Democratic theorists must not be indifferent to this weakness. First, tactical voters who are indifferent between two parties on the strength-of-feeling scores will be classified as non-tactical. By our assumption of large potential demand, this rate is such that a customer is indifferent between joining and not joining. He has forbidden such things and thus one ought not to be morally indifferent about them. Just as scientific ideology is indifferent to ontology, theological ideology is indifferent to ontology.#! However, as discussed above, the mechanisms for enforcing compliance are not indifferent for the outcome. Most people not indifferent to the policy would vote against it. The governments cannot enforce the original status quo, as the most integrationist government is indifferent between the de facto operation and the de jure rules. Second, interstate law was indifferent to the form of national political organization. See all examples of indifferent 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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