noncommittal

參見：non-committal

英语

其他形式

• non-commital, noncommital, non-committal

词源

non- +‎ committal

发音

• (標準英音) IPA^(幫助)：/ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtl̩/
• (美國) IPA^(幫助)：/ˌnɑnkəˈmɪtl̩/

• （美国）音频

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形容词

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

1. 不明确的，不果敢的；不置可否的，含糊的；不情愿的

   The Major's face was noncommittal.

   市长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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衍生词汇

• noncommittalism
• noncommittally
• noncommittalness

参见

• reticent

名词

noncommittal (可數 和 不可數, 複數 noncommittals)

1. 不遵守承诺或决定
   • 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. 还没作出决定的人 （如选举人等）
   • 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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