词汇 | recklessness |
释义 | recklessness noun[ U ] uk /ˈrek.ləs.nəs/ us /ˈrek.ləs.nəs/ dangerous behaviour that shows that you are not thinking about the risks and possible results of your actions: 鲁莽;轻率;不顾后果 The accident was a result of recklessness.事故是鲁莽造成的。 She had acted with extreme recklessness.她的行为极其鲁莽。 See reckless Dozens of staff lost their jobs because of the club's financial recklessness. The deaths were the result of criminal recklessness. Some "protective" measures can encourage recklessness. Doing things without fear or proper thought act of bravado bravado carpe diem daredevil desperado hotheadedly hotheadedness impetuosity impetuous impetuously like there is/was no tomorrowidiom precipitancy precipitant precipitate precipitately precipitation rashness trigger-happy unafraid with no thought for somethingidiom Examples of recklessnessrecklessness All of the faults of the paper, including the recklessness of the topic, are my own. Despite a considerable credit balance, there was 'recklessness of expenditure'. Now it is true that one can make a case for governmental recklessness here in terms of culpability. Why should the recklessness spoken of here be conceived as chaos? The exploring and colonising spirit of the sixteenth century was an amalgam of adventurism, greed, and recklessness, as displayed here. He culpably caused the condition that would negate the prima facie case, but not with purpose, knowledge or recklessness that he would be exculpated. The apparent recklessness of the act is a testimony to the desperation of the situation. Roughly we can distinguish malice, recklessness, negligence, and incompetence. Recklessness is to act knowing that it could cause harm or risk, but not taking this properly into account in deciding whether to act. In computer-software use, as in all other areas of clinical practice, good intentions alone may be insufficient to insulate recklessness from culpability. The stage is then set for a systematic treatment in subsequent chapters of human factors, errors, violations, negligence, recklessness, blame, standards of care, expert witnesses, and compensation to the injured. He then reinterprets all the other cases of responsible agency, including intended agency, as instances of practical indifference and then brings inadvertent recklessness into the tent. The frequency of erroneously overextending or overly limiting the scope of philosophical principles is due to the inherent risk of recklessness or timidity in inductive generalizations. Choosing to run an unreasonable risk of a wrongful outcome is only one way of manifesting indifference toward whether it materializes; one may also display this attitude through inadvertent recklessness. The alternative seems to be recklessness. See all examples of recklessness 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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