desultory

英 ['desəltri] 美 ['desəltɔːri]

• adj. 散漫的；断断续续的；不连贯的；杂乱的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another;

   "desultory thoughts"
   "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
   

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

近反义词

【近义词】

• haphazard 偶然的
• random 任意的
• erratic 古怪的
• aimless 无目的的
• casual 非正式的
• unmethodical 不讲方法的(不按程序的...
• discursive 散漫的
• chaotic 混乱的
• orderless 无条理的
• irregular 不规则的
• disconnected 分离的
• disorderly 无秩序的
• rambling 杂乱无章的
• unsystematic 无体系的
• excursive 游览的
• unfocused 未聚焦的
• indiscriminate 任意的