slipshod

英語

其他形式

• slip-shod

詞源

slip + shod (「穿着鞋的」)，原指「穿着拖鞋的」。「倉促」一意自19世紀初葉出現。

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈslɪp.ʃɒd/
• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈslɪp.ʃɑd/

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• 韻部：-ɒd

形容詞

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

1. 草草了事的，敷衍的，倉促的

   近義詞：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. (棄用) 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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近義詞

• 參見Thesaurus:careless