slipshod

英语

其他形式

• slip-shod

词源

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

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈslɪp.ʃɒd/
• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈslɪp.ʃɑd/

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• 韵部：-ɒd

形容词

slipshod (比较级 more slipshod，最高级 most slipshod)

1. 草草了事的，敷衍的，仓促的

   近义词：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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2. (弃用) 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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近义词

• 参见Thesaurus:careless