noncommittal

參見：non-committal

英語

其他形式

• non-commital, noncommital, non-committal

詞源

non- +‎ committal

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtl̩/
• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˌnɑnkəˈmɪtl̩/

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形容詞

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

1. 不明確的，不果敢的；不置可否的，含糊的；不情願的

   The Major's face was noncommittal.

   市長一副不置可否的表情。

   The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.

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   • 1818, S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany, 卷 10，頁號 234:

     [He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times.

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   • 2016 6月 22, Somini Sengupta, 「Saudis Question U.N. Leader Over Report on Rights Violators」, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A United Nations spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, has previously said the organization would not divulge its sources of information, but welcomed any additional information from the coalition. The United Nations has been noncommittal on the Saudi proposal to send its experts to Riyadh.

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衍生詞彙

• noncommittalism
• noncommittally
• noncommittalness

參見

• reticent

名詞

noncommittal (可數 和 不可數，複數 noncommittals)

1. 不遵守承諾或決定
   • 1997, Dennis Sven Nordin, The New Deal's Black Congressman，頁號 42:

     As a result of cowardly noncommittals during the immediate postelection period, there was so much strain on several black-white Democratic relationships that they approached open ruptures.

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2. 還沒作出決定的人 （如選舉人等）
   • 1981, Howard Rae Penniman, Canada at the Polls, 1979 and 1980，頁號 372:

     Where they occur, in the Liberal increases in Quebec and Ontario for instance, they are offset by declines in the number of undecideds or noncommittals.

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