音标:['desәltәri] ;
a. 散漫的, 无条理的, 不连贯的
s. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another

考试类型:[GRE]
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desultory的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. His conduct during these first weeks had been desultory beyond description.在这两三个礼拜之内,他的行动可以说是散漫得没法形容。
  2. He broke into a desultory chat with me over his business affairs.他突然开始和我漫无边际地谈起他的生意来了。
  3. Our planning proceeded in a desultory fashion.我们的计划工作是以一种杂乱无章的方式进行的。

经典引文

  • Persons of a light and desultory temper, that skip about, and are blown with every wind, as Grasshoppers are.

    出自:R. Bentley
  • I shot at it but it was so desultory that I missed my aim.

    出自:G. White
  • He found desultory employment as a soda-jerker, or as a delivery boy.

    出自:T. C. Wolfe
  • The rest of the short afternoon..had been lost to..napping, reading, and desultory chatter about the children, the new position that was in the offing, the utopia that was possible after that.

    出自:I. Wallace
  • The search out west, desultory as it was compared with the scouring of the Blue Mountains.

    出自:R. Travers
  • He pushed the tagliatelli around his plate in a desultory way, indifferent to the gaieties of the Piazza Navona.

    出自:A. Guinness
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