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dis·in·ter·est·ed AHD[dĭs-ĭnʹtrĭ-stĭd, -ĭnʹtə-rĕs'tĭd] D.J.[dɪsˈɪntrɪstɪd, -ˈɪntəˌrestɪd]K.K.[dɪsˈɪntrɪstɪd, -ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd]adj.(形容词)- Free of bias and self-interest; impartial:无偏见和私欲的;公正不阿的:"disinterested scientific opinion on fluorides in the water supply"(Ellen R. Shell)“对饮用水中氟化物的含量作个公正的科学鉴别”(埃伦R.谢尔)
- Not interested; indifferent:不感兴趣的;不关心的,冷淡的:"supremely disinterested in all efforts to find a peaceful solution"(C.L. Sulzberger)“对试图找到和平解决的方法而做出的努力很不感兴趣”(C.L.苏兹贝格)
- Having lost interest.已失去兴趣的
disinʹterestedly adv.(副词)disinʹterestedness n.(名词)- Despite critical disapproval, disinterested has come to be widely used by many educated writers to mean "uninterested" or "having lost interest,”as inSince she discovered skiing, she is disinterested in her schoolwork (a sense it had at an earlier stage of English, but which had in the interim become outmoded).Many maintain that the word can legitimately be used only in its sense of "having no stake in (an outcome or issue),”as inSince the judge stands to profit from the sale of the company, she cannot be considered a disinterested party in the dispute. In our most recent survey,89 percent of the Usage Panel rejected the sentence 尽管批评界的不赞成, disinterested 已逐渐成为许多有学识的作家们广泛用来指“不感兴趣的”或“失去兴趣的”,如在因为发现了滑雪这一运动,她就对功课失去了兴趣 (该词在英语的早期阶段就有这个词义,但在过渡时间,该词义已不再用)许多人认为在法律上该词只可用来表示“与(结果或事件)无利害关系,”如因为法官站在这一方是为了从公司所售物品中获利,她不能被看作是在这场争论中无任何关系的一方。 在最近的统计中,用法专题使用小组中百分之八十九的成员不接受下面的句子 His unwillingness to give five minutes of his time proves that he is disinterested in finding a solution to the problem, 他连自己的五分钟时间都不愿拿出,证明他对这一个解决问题的方法不感兴趣,
- a proportion that is not significantly different from the 93 percent who disapproved of the same usage in an earlier survey.与前一段统计中不赞成这一同样用法的比率百分之九十三相比,没有什么大的差别
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