insouciant

英语

词源

源自法語 insouciant，源自in- (“不”，前缀) + souciant (“担忧的”)，1828年。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ɪnˈsuːsɪənt/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /inˈsusiənt/

• （通用美式）音频：

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• 斷字：in‧sou‧ciant

形容词

insouciant (比較級 more insouciant，最高級 most insouciant)

1. 无所谓的，漫不经心的

   an insouciant gesture

   漫不经心的手势

   • 1834, [Theresa Lewis], chapter XII, in Countess of Morley [Frances Talbot Parker], editor, Dacre: A Novel. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], →OCLC, page 220:

     "I am quite serious in saying that your loss must and would be felt; but I verily believe," added she, after a moment's hesitation, "that you are so insouciant yourself, that you cannot believe that every body else is not equally indifferent."

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   • 1905, William Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVIII, in The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 215:

     It was there [Cadiz, Spain] that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant.

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   • 1913 August, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Christmas Harp”, in The Golden Road, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, published April 1926, →OCLC, pages 31–32:

     When we left the Marr house, he [Peter] had boldly said to Felicity, "May I see you home?" And Felicity, much to our amazement, had taken his arm and marched off with him. […] As for me, I was consumed by a secret and burning desire to ask the Story Girl if I might see her home; but I could not screw my courage to the sticking point. How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!

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   • 2004 April 26, Richard Schickel, “Sean Penn: Necessary Actor”, in Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 March 2008:

     […] [Jack] Nicholson turned to an assistant, bummed a cigarette, flashed one of his wolfish, insouciant grins and said, "We all have our little secrets, Seany."

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衍生词汇

• insouciantly

相关词汇

• insouciance
• solicit
• sans-souci

异序词

• incautions

法语

词源

in- +‎ souciant，源自soucier。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ɛ̃.su.sjɑ̃/

形容词

insouciant (陰性 insouciante，陽性複數 insouciants，陰性複數 insouciantes)

1. 无忧无虑的

衍生词汇

• insouciance

相关词汇

• sans-souci

延伸阅读

• “insouciant”在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé （《法语数字化宝典》）上的释义

异序词

• continuais