词汇 | circumspect |
释义 | circumspect adjective formaluk /ˈsɜː.kəm.spekt/ us /ˈsɝː.kəm.spekt/ careful not to take risks: 小心的;谨慎的;审慎的 Officials were circumspect about saying what the talks had achieved.官员们对谈判所取得的成果持谨慎态度。 Cautious and vigilant abundance an abundance of cautionidiom askance attentive attentively diligent diligent about something/doing something discreet due diligence gingerly meticulousness mindful minutely narrowly once semi-conservative slowly snuffly super-cautious super-conservative Related wordscircumspection circumspectly Examples of circumspectcircumspect Because of the censors, audience dissatisfaction could be mentioned in only the most circumspect way. Its paragraphs are longer and it is altogether more quantitative, more rigorous and more circumspect than the rest of the report. In a depressed or less certain market, both borrowers and lenders must adopt a more circumspect attitude. We must be circumspect in drawing conclusions from a study based on one village. Into the nineteenth century theatres continued to provide a space for socialising, but of a more circumspect variety. Rather, they are existentially estimated in the very circumspect act of seeing as a spatial mode of encountering beings in de-distancing. But environmentalists have been a little more circumspect since 1990 about predicting the exhaustion of minerals. Others, however, were a little more circumspect and only referred when there was a clear diagnosis. The rest of the book, however, has a more circumspect tone, refusing to claim the ' perfect validity ' (p. 140) of results. All this was a step in the right direction qua later developments : circumspect, undogmatic and inquisitive. The wisdom and expertise shared in this book should convince us all of the need to be more circumspect in our thinking and practice. Moderates who represented working-class constituencies, however, had to be more circumspect and balance general support for ' economy ' with responsiveness to specific working-class issues. Gerontologists may be circumspect about their claims, but the social expectation of the science of old age is that it will find ways to eliminate the very thing it studies. A nation with problems of this magnitude might have been more circumspect in its plans and should certainly have been less secure of its fitness to lead. In certain cases - cases where one's own teacher sits as defendant - most monks confessed that they tended to be more circumspect, less likely to deliver severe taunts, for instance. 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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