apathy
英['æpəθɪ]美['æpəθi]
- n. 冷漠，无兴趣，漠不关心；无感情
助记提示
1. a- "not, without" + -pathy "feeling".
2. => without feeling.
中文词源
apathy 冷漠
前缀a-, 无，没有。词根path, 感觉，感情。
英文词源
- apathy (n.)
- c. 1600, "freedom from suffering," from French apathie (16c.), from Latin apathia, from Greek apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassability, want of sensation," from apathes "without feeling, without suffering or having suffered," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (see pathos). Originally a positive quality; sense of "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is from c. 1733.
双语例句
- 1. Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy.
- 冷漠是英国地方民主制度长期以来难以推广的祸根。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. There is widespread apathy among the electorate.
- 选民普遍态度冷淡。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. We have been worried about her apathy since her husband died.
- 她丈夫死后,我们一直为她对一切都持冷漠态度而担忧.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 4. He was sunk in apathy after his failure.
- 他失败后心恢意冷.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. He has an apathy to food.
- 他不思饮食.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》