slipshod
外观
英语
[编辑]其他形式
[编辑]词源
[编辑]slip + shod (“穿着鞋的”),原指“穿着拖鞋的”。“仓促”一意自19世纪初叶出现。
发音
[编辑]形容词
[编辑]slipshod (比較級 more slipshod,最高級 most slipshod)
- 草草了事的,敷衍的,仓促的
- 近義詞:slapdash
- 1880, Mark Twain, The Awful German Language:
- Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
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- 1999年8月22日, Johanna McGeary, “Buried Alive”, 出自 Time:
- Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.
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- (棄用) 穿着拖鞋的
- 1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 67:
- [T]hey wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying [...] as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement.
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- 1870, Bret Harte, From a Back Window:
- That glossy, well-brushed individual, who lets himself in with a latch-key at the front door at night, is a very different being from the slipshod wretch who growls of mornings for hot water at the door of the kitchen.
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