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

• Two years of feckless negotiations
  拖了两年毫无结果的谈判
• The fact that Europeans led the way in calling for a campaign in Libya that they are incapable of conducting alone, has merely re-enforced the American view that the European arm of NATO is, to varying degrees, feckless and unreliable.
  欧洲带头呼吁对利比亚实施干预、而自己又无力独自采取行动，这一事实的作用只是再次强化了美国的如下观点：北约的欧洲部队或多或少是低效和不可靠的。
• Germany complains it is footing the bill for its feckless neighbours.
  德国抱怨，自己在为不负责任的邻居埋单。
• That voracious demand relentlessly pushes up prices – and Grantham emphasizes that supply and demand, rather than evil speculators or feckless central bankers, are the driving forces here, whatever posture our president might choose to take.
  这样旺盛的需求持续推高了价格&格雷厄姆强调，推高价格的是供需因素，而不是讨厌的投机者或不负责任的央行。
• 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？
• Susan's fellow monsters have a feckless charm, but they'reall but useless in approaching the job at hand.
  苏珊的怪物伙伴都是外强中亁，在处理手头上的工作时都无能。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• From the U.S., the European debt crisis can seem like a black comedy populated by regional stereotypes: iron-fisted Anglo-Saxons, feckless Mediterraneans, and haughty Brussels bureaucrats.
  在美国看来，欧债危机就像是由地域特色鲜明的老套人物扮演的一场荒诞喜剧：吝啬的盎格鲁撒克逊人、不负责任的地中海人以及盛气凌人的布鲁塞尔官僚。