| 词汇 | inept |
| 释义 | inept adjective uk /ɪˈnept/ us /ˌɪnˈept/ not skilled or effective: 无能的;笨拙的;无效的 inept comment/remarkan inept comment/remark拙劣的评论／谈话 inept atHe was always rather inept at sport.他一直不擅长体育运动。 inept handlingHe was criticized for his inept handling of the situation.他由于对这一局面处理不当而受到批评。 socially ineptDick was socially inept and uncomfortable in the presence of women.迪克不擅长社交，在女性面前显得局促。 Synonym incompetent bad at something bad atI was overweight and bad at sport. hopelessI’m completely hopeless in the kitchen. uselessUKHe’s useless at maths. rubbishUKShe’s a pretty rubbish singer, really. incompetentThe rules have made it hard to remove incompetent teachers. Inability and awkwardness accident-prone adorkable all thumbsidiom amateurish amateurishly fumbling fumblingly functional illiteracy gauche gauchely inexpertly jack-of-all-trades jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom klutzy like a bull in a china shopidiom uncoordinated uneducable unenterprising unequal ungainly Related wordineptitude inept | American Dictionaryinept adjective us/ɪˈnept/ not skilled or effective: He was always pretty inept at sports. ineptitudenoun[ U ]us/ɪˈnep·tɪˌtud/ political/social/economic ineptitude Examples of ineptinept Some judges are inattentive or cognitively inept, for example. The inept use of the formal style would only result in ridicule, pomposity and ineffectiveness. Both areas had a history of economic decline presided over by inept and corrupt government. It moved considerably beyond punk music of inept musicians, three chords and 4:4 time. Consequently, caught between spiralling crime and inept police, the local population began to organize its own %! These accounts can be read also as a reaction against the prevailing views that women were ' weaker' and more 'inept ' than their male counterparts. Sometimes it is simply employing inexperienced or inept workers when skilled labour is in short supply. The ambitious program of government reform proposed in 1900, including roads, bridges, the telegraph, and modernization of the ports, was undermined by inept application. The colonists, no matter how inept, were the cause of the strife that every member of the community faced. Ordinary garden variety theistic mystics seem to be either disinterested in fame and power or else are inept at generating much interest in their experiences. The noun mismanagement, for instance, can be paraphrased as 'the condition of mismanaging' or as 'inept management'. Is inept caregiving an expression of parent inadequacy or a reaction to prior experience with the child? We can see her frustration at being so inept at communication. Besides, men in this culture could not cook or tend to household needs and were inept in the care of children. What will our children and their children think of our inept inaction? 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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