| 英语单词 | defective |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [dɪ'fektɪv] 美 [dɪ'fektɪv] |
| 中文释义 | adj.有缺陷的;[语]不完全变化的 n.有缺陷的人 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He is mentally defective. (2) She has a defective utterance. (3) Please return defective merchandise in three days. (4) We decided to make all the defective sheet up. (5) Evidence is accumulating that a defective gene may be responsible for this disease. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他智力不健全。 (2) 她发音有缺陷。 (3) 请于三日内退还缺陷的商品。 (4) 我们决定全部重印有缺陷的页码。 (5) 越来越多的证据表明该疾病是由一种有缺陷的基因引起的。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Something that's defective doesn't work quite right, because it's damaged in some way. Your defective car probably won't make it all the way to California from New York. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Defective things are broken or flawed. A defective blender won't mix your morning smoothie the way you want it to, and a defective law doesn't serve the people it's meant to protect. A very old-fashioned meaning of defective, which is considered quite offensive today, is "mentally ill" or "mentally handicapped." The Late Latin root is defectivus, "to fail, revolt, or desert." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]有缺点的;有缺陷的;有毛病的 If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
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