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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day:feckless
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Mon Nov 29 09:01:17 1999), 转信
feckless (FECK-less) adj.
origin: from the Scottish "feck", meaning effect, + less
1. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
"After two years of anguished but feckless soul searching by
NATO about its proper role in the Bosnia mess, the organization's
halfhearted display of military muscle in the skies over Gorazde
did little to enhance its reputation."
-- Time Magazine (April 25, 1994)
"Let people try to stop her! She glowered at the rows of feckless
bodies that lay sprawled in the chairs. Let them try it once!"
-- Willa Cather "Song of the Lark"
2. Careless and irresponsible.
"House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said Republicans had achieved
their major goal in passing the bill - putting the administration
on notice that it would have to "rethink the sort of feckless
multilateralism" that he said had characterized its foreign
policy."
--Los Angeles Times (February 17, 1995)
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