apathy
英 ['?p?θ?]
美['?p?θi]
- n. 冷漠，無興趣，漠不關心；無感情
TEM8IELTS低頻詞擴展詞匯
助記提示
1. a- "not, without" + -pathy "feeling".
2. => without feeling.
2. => without feeling.
中文詞源
apathy 冷漠
前綴a-, 無，沒有。詞根path, 感覺，感情。
英文詞源
- apathy (n.)
- c. 1600, "freedom from suffering," from French apathie (16c.), from Latin apathia, from Greek apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassability, want of sensation," from apathes "without feeling, without suffering or having suffered," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (see pathos). Originally a positive quality; sense of "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is from c. 1733.
雙語例句
- 1. Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy.
- 冷漠是英國地方民主制度長期以來難以推廣的禍根。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. There is widespread apathy among the electorate.
- 選民普遍態度冷淡。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. We have been worried about her apathy since her husband died.
- 她丈夫死后,我們一直為她對一切都持冷漠態度而擔憂.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. He was sunk in apathy after his failure.
- 他失敗后心恢意冷.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. He has an apathy to food.
- 他不思飲食.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》