desultory
英['desəltri] 美['desəltɔːri]
"desultory thoughts"
"the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
1.杂乱的;散漫的;无条理的;漫不经心的
Something that isdesultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
e.g. The constables made adesultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.
警察漫不经心地拦着不让他们靠近谷仓。
1. 散漫的：destructiveness 破坏性 |desultory 散漫的 | desymbolization 去象征化
2. desultory的意思
2. 散漫的、簿连贯的：80、shrift 忏悔、悔悟、承认 | 81、desultory 散漫的、簿连贯的 | 82、obsolete 荒废的、陈旧的
3. 不连贯的,散漫的：cessation 中止,(短暂的)停止 |desultory 不连贯的,散漫的 | diaphanous (布)精致的,半透明的
4. desultory的翻译
4. 随意的,杂乱的：destrui 毁灭 destroy | desulta 随意的,杂乱的desultory | detalo 详情 detail
Persons of a light and desultory temper, that skip about, and are blown with every wind, as Grasshoppers are.
出自：R. BentleyI shot at it but it was so desultory that I missed my aim.
出自：G. WhiteHe found desultory employment as a soda-jerker, or as a delivery boy.
出自：T. C. WolfeThe rest of the short afternoon..had been lost to..napping, reading, and desultory chatter about the children, the new position that was in the offing, the utopia that was possible after that.
出自：I. WallaceThe search out west, desultory as it was compared with the scouring of the Blue Mountains.
出自：R. TraversHe pushed the tagliatelli around his plate in a desultory way, indifferent to the gaieties of the Piazza Navona.
出自：A. Guinness上一个：antagonistic
下一个：destructively
