英语单词 | inept |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪ'nept] 美 [ɪ'nept] |
中文释义 | adj.不适当的;无能的;笨拙的 |
英语例句 | (1) Only inept officials would burden children with such a requirement rather than install speed bumps, others insisted. (2) Why do you give me this tainted Apocrypha, this thousandth copy, this inept falsification? |
中文例句 | (1) 另有人认为,只有无能的官员才会用这样的规定来加重孩子们的负担,而不采取安装减速装置。 (2) 为什么给我这本污损过的伪经,这第一千次的抄本,笨拙的伪造? |
vocabulary简明 | A clumsy, incompetent person — or an ineffective action — is inept. When you're inept, you don't know what you're doing or just can't get it done. |
vocabulary扩展 | Someone inept is bumbling, clueless, and ineffective. Inept people are dumb or clueless; they don't understand things. More than that, inept people are bad at what they do. An inept lawyer always loses cases. An inept figure skater wipes out on the ice. An inept postal worker loses mail and puts it in the wrong box. An inept person is downright bad at something. The opposite of inept is competent. |
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]无能的;笨拙的 If you say that someone is inept, you are criticizing them because they do something with a complete lack of skill. [disapproval]
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