feckless

英 [ˈfekləs]

美 [ˈfekləs]

adj.  品格差的; 不负责任的

GRETEM8

BNC.20276 / COCA.25428

牛津词典

adj.

• 品格差的；不负责任的
  having a weak character; not behaving in a responsible way
  1. Her husband was a charming, but lazy and feckless man.
     她的丈夫讨人喜欢，但却是个懒惰没有出息的人。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 无能的;软弱的;不中用的
  If you describe someone asfeckless, you mean that they lack determination or strength, and are unable to do anything properly.
  1. He regarded the young man as feckless and irresponsible.
     他认为这个年轻人不光无能，还不负责任。

英英释义

adj

• generally incompetent and ineffectual
  1. feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
  2. inept handling of the account
  Synonym:inept
• not fit to assume responsibility

双语例句

• I can hold a tea, soft: hand and feckless man, I do not look down on you.
  红袖任我抱了一会，轻声说：放手，没出息的男人，别让我看不起你。
• In those days he was a feckless and poverty-stricken young drop-out.
  那些日子里，他是一个无精打采的穷困的退学生。
• A feckless son is a disgrace to his parents.
  儿子没出息，父母脸上也无光。
• Between corrupt mortgage brokers, feckless lenders, and risk-happy hedge funds, there's plenty to keep investors and policymakers up at night.
  腐化的抵押经纪人、无能的放贷者和热衷于冒险的套利基金所组成的队伍中，有相当一部分让投资者和政策制定者一天忙到晚。
• And Washington is annoyed at Europe's feckless attempts at economic reforms.
  美国方面对欧盟不痛不痒的经济改革也懊恼不已。
• By other measures, curiously, teenagers are still feckless.
  但奇怪的是，从其他方面来看青少年仍有其问题。
• A childhood that had caused him to turn out feckless and improvident.
  使他变得玩世不恭、挥霍无度的童年时代。
• Why should prudent Germans subsidise feckless Greeks, the discourse now runs?
  有人会说，严谨的德国人为什么要贴补不负责任的希腊人？
• There is some moral content to their critique it is wrong to make the prudent pay for the reckless and feckless but the policy solutions they seek are mostly a matter of dollars and cents.
  他们的批评带有一些道德成分让谨慎的人为鲁莽轻率的人付出代价是不对的然而他们所寻求的政治解决方案，却大多关系到真金白银。
• That has not stopped Mr Romney from calling Mr Obama's foreign policy "feckless" and accusing him of "an eloquently justified surrender of world leadership".
  这并没有阻止罗姆尼先生称奥巴马的外交政策软弱无力，并且指控他是一个世界领导阶层里非常善辩的把自己的妥协合理化的人。