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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Two years of feckless negotiations
  拖了两年毫无结果的谈判
• 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。
• At present, the supervision of the procuratorial organ for commutation and parole is feckless in practice, because the legal regulations and the procuratorial organ are imperfect.
  目前在实践中，由于法律规定不完善等客观方面的原因，还有检察机关自身的主观方面原因，造成了检察机关对减刑假释的检察监督不力，在很多环节都出现了检察监督缺位的状况。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。