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 cursory ['kɚsərɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 匆匆忙忙的, 草率的, 粗略的

  1. He gave the guests a cursory glance.
    他朝客人们草草地看了一眼。
  2. Even a cursory reading of the letter showed many errors.
    仅粗略的一读便发现那封信的许多错误。
  3. My hands were full, so I just gave the book a cursory reading.
    我忙得不可开交,所以只把这本书大略看了一下.


cursory
[ adj ]
hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
<adj.all>
a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flawsa passing glance
perfunctory courtesy


Cursory \Cur"so*ry\ (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr. cursor.
See {Cursor}.]
1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.]

2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially
performed; slight; superficial; careless.

Events far too important to be treated in a cursory
manner. --Hallam.

  1. Both state and federal authorities acknowledge that the prepaid system can be abused by providers who collect regular rates but give only cursory care.
  2. Only rarely was there time to linger beyond the most cursory of drawings.
  3. But Nunn said all allegations have to be considered, saying the committee would look foolish if more charges surfaced after a cursory review of the charges.
  4. This is borne out by a cursory examination of Nelson's Directory, the US investment bible, which does not list a single US analyst covering South African stocks. Mr Pengilly believes that 'over time' there will be a flow of funds to South Africa.
  5. Sometimes only cursory checks are made of baggage handlers, caterers and cleaners.
  6. Amnesty quoted ex-prisoners as saying a "death commission" of Iranian officials chose prisoners every day and sent them to their deaths after a cursory interrogation if their views were not acceptable.
  7. This cursory measure of the Massachusetts Miracle indicates that 80% of it occurred in the four years Mr. Dukakis was out of office, while 20% occurred in the nine years he has been governor.
  8. In at least one case, drugs were discovered by inspectors who disregarded the computer's determination that a shipment needed only a cursory check, said George King, a union spokesman in Chicago.
  9. "As he was designated the front-runner, his coverage is getting more negative." Television coverage of politics, to be sure, can be shallow and cursory.
  10. As a result, there is little overall management planning, considerable turnover among skilled field people and little time for rangers to do much more than keep a cursory watch on the remote acreage under their domain.
  11. He said in his "Coming to America" deposition that he gets hundreds of movie ideas and often gives a "cursory `no we're not interested'" without explaining why.
  12. Inspector David Grant had made a cursory check of the van and the two bags in it.
  13. Patel on Tuesday said she was unsatisfied with the "cursory, casual way" the government had handled the immunity agreement.
  14. The association called for more research in the field after a task force's cursory look at the problem in 1984.
  15. But for now, executives continue to avoid even cursory contact.
  16. His examination of the Palestinian point of view, however, is cursory and suspect.
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