inept
[i'nept]
adj. 不适当的, 无能的, 笨拙的
例句与用法:
Not competent or skillful; inept.
无能的没能力的或不熟练的; 笨拙的
I've never heard anyone so inept at making speeches.
我从未听说过有这样不会讲话的人。
His inept handling of a minor problem turned it into a major crisis.
他处理不善使小事变大了。
词形变化:
a.
1. 不适当的
2. 无能的; 笨拙的
inept[i'nept]adj.1.■愚昧的,愚蠢的,荒谬的,不理智的2.■无能的,不称职的,笨拙的3.■不合适的,不恰当的,不相宜的近义词awkward
ineptinept[iˈnept]adj.1.■愚蠢[昧]的, 可笑的2.■不相宜的, 不合时宜的3.■笨拙的; 无能的, 不称职的4.■不合适的He's quite inept at tennis.他打网球太笨。
继承用法ineptlyadv.ineptnessn.
adjective
- having or showing no skill; clumsy
无技能的,缺乏技巧的;笨拙的
the referee's inept handling of the match.
该裁判对这场比赛的拙劣处理。
ineptitude
noun
ineptly
adverb
ineptness
noun
语源
- mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'not apt, unsuitable'): from Latin ineptus, from in- 'not' + aptus (see apt)
inept
形容词 inept:
not elegant or graceful in expression
同义词:awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, ill-chosen
generally incompetent and ineffectual
同义词:feckless
revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
同义词:tactless
inept
■At the battle of Crecy in 1346, the inept Philip annihilated his own army.
一三四六年克雷西斯战役中,用兵无方的腓力歼灭了自己的军队。
■an inept remark.
一个愚蠢的评价
■He spoke of his art as being like "a good armchair"-- a ludicrously inept comparison for such a brilliant man-- but his art was a respite, a reprieve, a comfort to him.
一定会使你的翻译水平和表达水平上个台阶的,记住:坚持就是胜利,同样胜利是要靠坚持的。
■Husband: I know, but the workers said that because I'm so inept they had to get rid of me to keep their jobs. It was a mutiny.
丈夫:我知,只是工人说因为我太无能,所以他们要革除我以保饭碗,这是叛变。
■socially inept
不善酬应
■If the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
不得体的评论。
■7.an inept remark; it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable.
不恰当的注释;提起那些讨厌的事不够策略的。
■to be inept at sth
不擅长某事
■Insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer, INEPT
不灵敏核极化转移增益法
■an inept comparison
不适当的比较
■Why is the technology industry generally so inept at designing the interactive parts of digital products?
为什么在技术行业中通常无法设计出好的数字产品的交互部分呢?
■Why do you give me this tainted Apocrypha, this thousandth copy, this inept falsification?
为什么给我这本污损过的伪经,这第一千次的抄本,笨拙的伪造?
■Auditioning for the role of the socially inept Princess Mia, the self-confessed klutz fell off a stool and immediately got the part.
为平民公主米娅试镜时,这个自认为笨手笨脚的小丫头从椅子上摔了下来并立即得到了这个角色。
■A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
书呆子专心致志搞科研或精于科研的人,但令人感到不善社交
■In fact, those people who were most inept were also the most likely to overestimate their abilities.
事实上,这些不称职的员工正是最可能过高估计自身能力的人。
■Saddled with this inept newcomer, they newly minted quartet embark on treasure-seeking adventures that dip into slapstick territory without losing any of their fantastical elements.
于是她们和这位新的伙伴出发寻找这个价值年成的宝藏冒险旅程。。。
■Today is the first day of the rest of his life and, for inept barber Kresk, that's little encouragement.
今天是不擅长理发的发型师"纪"-人生的转捩点。
■He is inept at ball games.
他不善於打球。
■He is inept at [in] ball games.
他不擅于打球。
■Most end up swimming or running, activities where being inept doesn't automatically result in broken necks.
他们大多数都是参加游泳或赛跑项目的,这类运动就算你并不擅长也不至于摔断脖颈。
■They're called managers -- a word that techies have a tendency to reject because so many corporate managers are inept.
他们所谓的经理-一个词技术人员有一种倾向拒绝,因为有很多企业经营者是无能的。
■They depicted the government as inept
他们把政府描绘得无能。
■They' re inept at tennis.
他们根本不会打网球。
■He is totally inept.
他做什麽都不行。
■His inept handling of a minor problem turned it into a major crisis
他处理不善使小事变大了
■His inept handling of a minor problem turned it into a major crisis.
他处理不善使小事变大了。
■He's quite inept at tennis.
他打网球太笨。
■He points out that for all the LDP's troubles, the DPJ has proved inept at profiting from them.
他指出,尽管目前自民党陷入了困境,民主党却被证明无法从中渔利。
■He was an inept politician.
他是个无能的政客。
■He's inept at tennis.
他根本不会打网球。
■He knew it wasn't that he was an inept businessman. The peasants simply were too poor. They couldn't even spend ninety cents on an umbrella.
他知道不是自己不会做生意,委实是乡下人太穷了,买不起九毛钱的一顶
■But, by pushing it, you risk blowing an important event, you risk coming off as being desperate for action and worst of all, you risk appearing inexperienced and inept.
但是,如果你冲动了,你在冒错过一次重要事件的风险,你在冒表现的很急切很糟糕的风险,你在冒显示出你无经验和无能的风险。
■The trouble is that, with no consensus about the past, Japan's establishment is inept at articulating a better future.
但问题是,没有对过去历史的共识,日本对美好未来的建设是不现实的。
■Do you yearn for intimate relationships yet feel that you are too socially inept to obtain them?
你会渴望亲密的关系只因为你觉得自己在社交上太笨拙而无法获得吗?
■The public has often savaged Beijing as being inept in dealing with foreign capitalists.
公众总是批评北京缺乏处理外国资本家的能力。
■Mrs. Liu also approved of her husband's keen reasoning, her only qualm being that Fang was so inept and would need her husband to keep his job for him
刘太太也称赞丈夫心思敏捷,只担心方鸿渐本领太糟,要大舅子替他捧牢饭碗。
■Beijing is still inept at wielding its growing clout abroad and that the country's obsession with the Beijing Olympics reflected a "weak nation's psychology."
北京依然不善于对外展示其日益增长的力量,而且中国对北京奥运会的痴迷正反映了一种“弱国心态”。
■Even inept films sometimes carry with them a certain mesmerizing authority.
即便是一些荒谬的电影作品有时也不乏迷人之处。
■On the other hand, Udagawa (who has just joined the police ranks through his father's connections) is fairly inept and has a tendency to fall in love with female suspects.
另一方面,宇田川(谁刚刚加入警察队伍通过他父亲的连接)是相当无能,并倾向于爱上女嫌疑人。
■Only inept officials would burden children with such a requirement rather than install speed bumps, others insisted.
另有人认为,只有无能的官员才会用这样的规定来加重孩子们的负担,而不采取安装减速装置。
■Ever more Westerners understandably ask why their compatriots must keep dying to prop up the inept and corrupt Mr Karzai.
可以理解,越来越多的西方人发问:为什么他们的同胞非得要为了支持那个无能又腐败的卡尔扎伊而不断丧生。
■inept praise
可笑的赞扬
■Madame Chiang was later to blame the “loss” of China not on the inept and corrupt Nationalist regime but on the American government of the time, a tale that many Americans continue to believe.
后来,蒋夫人将国民党的失败怪罪于当时的美国政府,而不是国民党政权的无能与腐败,至今仍有许多美国人相信这一说法。
■If the other person doesn't follow through, you're left looking inept.
因为如果这样,尽管是别人不配合,你却已给人留下无能的印象。
■Accordingly, his peers judged him an inept instructor and ill-suited to a scholarly career.
因此,他的同事断定他作为讲师不称职,不适合学者事业。
■He acts as the adviser for nine uncannily similar brothers who are remarkably inept samurai.
在“穿心剑”中,他扮演一名导师,指导9名既怪异又相当笨拙的武士。影片的动作设计,很搞笑;
■Whan an inept remark to make on such a formal occasion.
在如此正式的场合怎么说这样不恰当的话。
■The ambition of scientific management was to offer a single, integrated system where all human variance (the source of slothful shirking and inept error) could be isolated and controlled.
在这些系统中,人类自主性、学习、交流和适应性即使没有被清除,也被降到最低。
■Inept dynasties augur instability and are overthrown.
坏的王朝就会出现不稳定预兆然后被推翻。
■Her hair was unwaved and put up in a bun, probably because she found the local hairdressers too inept
头发没烫,梳了髻,想来是嫌本地理发店电烫不到家的缘故。