词汇 | feckless |
释义 | fecklessWord family adjectivefecklessadverbfecklesslyfecklynounfecklessnessfeck feck·less /ˈfekləs/ adjectiveadj DETERMINEDlacking determination, and not achieving anything in your life 软弱的,窝囊的,没出息的 Alice’s feckless younger brother 艾丽斯那个没出息的弟弟 —fecklessly adverbadv —fecklessness noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus feckless• The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.• The spending may have been great but it was not being devoted to thousands upon thousands of undeserving and feckless claimants.• Partly, no doubt, the figures include at least some wilful or at least entirely feckless credit misusers.• Doubtless, some are feckless individuals who could do better but simply don't trouble.• Market forces remain free because of public imagery about the feckless, the idle and the deviant.• a feckless young man (1500-1600) Scottish English feck “effect, larger part”, from effect |
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