apathy
英 ['æpəθɪ]
美['æpəθi]
- n. 冷漠，无兴趣，漠不关心；无感情
助记提示
1. a- "not, without" + -pathy "feeling".
2. => without feeling.
2. => without feeling.
中文词源
apathy 冷漠
前缀a-, 无，没有。词根path, 感觉，感情。
英英释意
- 1. an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
- 2. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
英文词源
- apathy (n.)
- c. 1600, "freedom from suffering," from French apathie (16c.), from Latin apathia, from Greek apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassability, want of sensation," from apathes "without feeling, without suffering or having suffered," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (see pathos). Originally a positive quality; sense of "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is from c. 1733.
考试真题
- The result could be a group of young people that, like their boomer (二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) parents, grows up with a strong sense of purpose and sheds the image of apathy (冷漠) they've inherited from Generation X (60 .代后期和70 .代出生的美国人).
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实用场景例句
- There is widespread apathy among the electorate.
- 选民普遍态度冷淡。
牛津词典
- They told me about isolation and public apathy.
- 他们向我谈到了孤立无助和公众的冷漠。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the political apathy and emotional uncertainty of young Americans.
- 美国年轻人对政治的漠不关心和情感上的多变
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Indifference, apathy or resistance , however, may stand in the way.
- 但在过程中可能遇到漠不关己的冷淡反应, 甚或抵抗.
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- She heard the story with apathy.
- 她无动于衷地听了这个故事.
辞典例句
- Thus, crime is common, apathy is de rigueur, and cynicism is rampant.
- 从而, 罪恶变得没什么大不了, 冷漠变成社交需要, 而玩世不恭成了每个人的生活态度.
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- We lost the election because of the apathy of our supporters.
- 由于我们支持者的冷漠我们在选举中输了.
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- His zeal was damped by the apathy of the public.
- 公众的冷漠使他灰心丧气.
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- He has apathy to food.
- 他对食物的冷漠.
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- Voter apathy is expected to characterize the election toselectnew representatives for the European Union's parliament.
- 选民对选举新的欧洲议会一直漠不关心,意大利在这方面颇具代表性.
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- He shows apathy towards everything.
- 他对任何事情都很冷淡.
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- We have been worried about her apathy since her husband died.
- 她丈夫死后,我们一直为她对一切都持冷漠态度而担忧.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- 没有情感,就不会有黑暗向光明、冷漠向活力的转变.
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- A state of sluggishness , inactivity, and apathy.
- 无精打采,呆滞:懒散,无生气, 冷漠的状态.
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- He has an apathy to food.
- 他不思饮食.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- If we continue current trend of apathy, we are doomed towards a very bleak future.
- 如果继续像当前这样无动于衷, 我们注定将走向一个非常惨淡的未来.
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- He was sunk in apathy after his failure.
- 他失败后心恢意冷.
《简明英汉词典》
- The appearance of the opening duck seemed first to arouse the Hurons from their apathy.
- 张开的船帆的出现立即引起了休仑人的警觉.
辞典例句
- The soldiers who had survived were thrown comletely off balance , reduced to apathy.
- 死里逃生的士兵精神麻木,呆若木鸡.
辞典例句
- Standing between the two is an administrative machine corroded by apathy and corruption.
- 在两者之间还有一个冷漠、贪腐的管理集团.
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- My parents do not apathy about the election.
- 我父母对此次选举“并非”漠不关心.
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- The most destructive force against marriage is apathy, indifferent to each other.
- 婚姻最大的敌人就是冷漠, 彼此的冷漠.
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- Moderate aloofness assures the authority of doctor but excess aloofness will lead to occupational apathy.
- 适度的超然为医生职业的权威性提供了保证,过度的超然造成职业的冷漠.
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- We should not show apathy towards the poor children.
- 我们不应该对贫穷的孩子漠然不顾.
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- Life would be a confusion of the desert of apathy.
- 人生将是一片迷茫的沙漠,了无生趣.
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- Her apathy since her husband's death worries her children.
- 自从丈夫死后,她的冷漠使孩子们感到忧郁.
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- The apathy in their faces as strangers in the universe they are living in.
- 他所描绘的人物表情冷漠淡然,仿佛置身世界边缘的陌生人.
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- I'm fretting about seemingly immovable and unchangeable stone bench values like apathy, passivity, indifference.
- 令我感到烦躁的是一些似乎不能被改变的观念,例如,对周遭事物冷淡 、 被动和漠不关心.
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- Mondale is stirring up apathy all over this country.
- 蒙代激起了全国人民的漠不关心.
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