| 词汇 | absently |
| 释义 | absently adverb uk /ˈæb.sənt.li/ us /ˈæb.sənt.li/ as if you are not paying attention to what is happening near you, and are thinking about other things: 心不在焉地；走神地 He stared absently at his food.他心不在焉地盯着自己的食物。 Not paying attention absent absent-minded absent-mindedly absent-mindedness abstracted escape someone's notice faraway glazed gnat go back to sleep!idiom merrily misfocus moment moony not take a blind bit of noticeidiom sideline unmindful unwarily unwary zone out Examples of absentlyabsently He turns, absently, and switches the device off. From NPR He fell silent also and kicked gravely and absently into a hummock with the toe of his boot. From Project Gutenberg He dropped upon the bed again and stared absently at his clothes. From Project Gutenberg He had glanced absently at his wife as if he hardly heard. From Project Gutenberg She was cautiously endeavoring to free one edge of her skirt; she nodded absently, then subsided, crimsoning, as a faint tearing of cloth sounded. From Project Gutenberg He began to draw on his glove, absently, with a preoccupied air. From Project Gutenberg She half rose, staring absently at the sofa pattern. From Project Gutenberg He nodded a little absently, she thought, and fell in step beside her. From Project Gutenberg He kept walking slower and slower as if in deep thought, and after a time he reached absently into his pocket for a letter. From Project Gutenberg My vis-à-vis rubbed absently at a protuberance on his left side. From Project Gutenberg He was absently straightening the papers on his table, when a small blue envelope attracted his attention. From Project Gutenberg A single citizen appeared at the doorway of the most habitable house and looked absently over the heads of the new-comers. From Project Gutenberg At the touch, and the sound of her voice, he roused himself with a start and regarded her absently. From Project Gutenberg The major absently rubbed the radiation scar on his cheek as he looked them over. From Project Gutenberg 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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