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

• Fingers have been pointed at supine regulators, greedy bankers and investors, naive consumers and feckless politicians.
  人们已经把矛头指向了松懈的监管机构、贪婪的银行家和投资者、天真的消费者以及软弱无能的政治家。
• Unfortunately, Australia's feckless leaders are destroying this by promoting high population growth without any sort of industrial strategy.
  不幸啊，澳大利亚的无能的领导者采取了促进人口增长而没有相应的工业发展战略。
• 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。
• The other members of the group whom Jordan meets are the Gipsy rafael, amiable but feckless, and pablo's wife pilar, an ugly woman who is far braver than her husband.
  乔丹见到的游击队其他成员有友善厚道但缺乏能力的吉普赛人拉斐尔和帕布洛的妻子皮拉尔。皮拉尔这个女人相貌虽丑，却比她丈夫勇敢得多。
• 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？
• A feckless son is a disgrace to his parents.
  儿子没出息，父母脸上也无光。
• 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。
• 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。
• Indeed, the vast bulk of the official loans to Greece were not made for its benefit at all, but for that of its feckless private creditors.
  实际上，很大一部分发放给希腊的官方贷款根本不是为了希腊的利益，而是为了让无能的私营部门债权人全身而退。
• 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。