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Disinterested Sense Personal Impartial Partisanship Matter Means Dis'intristid

单词 disinterested
音标 [dis'intristid]
解释 a.公正的,客观的
红宝书 【英】 adj.公正的,客观的( not influenced by personal interest or selfish motives; impartial; unbiased)
【考】 disinterested : partisanship / venal : probity(党派主义不会公正/ 正直[的人]不会贪污)反义词:prejudiced( 怀偏见的); factional(派系的); iniquity(不公正)
【记】 注意区别:uninteres ted(不感兴趣的)
【例】 She is completely disinterested in the matter and can judge fairly. Being sick, Mary was disinterested in food.
字源 disinterested (adj.)
1610s, "unconcerned," the sense we now would ascribe to uninterested, with the sense of "impartial" going to disinteressed (c.1600). See dis- + interest. Modern sense of disinterested is first attested 1650s. As things now stand, disinterested means "free from personal bias," while uninterested means "caring nothing for the matter in question." Related: Disinterestedly; disinterestedness.
不择手段背单词 adj. 公正客观的 = motives = impartial; 冷淡的; 没有兴趣的
【区】uninterested(adj 不感兴趣的)
【类】disinterested: partisanship = venal: probity党派主义不会是公正的 = 正直不会是贪污的
【反】prejudiced(adj 有偏见的); factional(adj 派系的); iniquity(n 不公正)-disinterestedness(n 无偏见)
趣味全助记 【记】dis无 + interested利益关系,没有利益关系的→第三方公正的,判断某件事需要与该事件无利益关系的第三方做客观判断
【相关】uninterested 不感兴趣的

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