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 indifference [ɪn'dɪfərəns]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 不重视, 无兴趣, 漠不关心

[法] 中立, 不偏袒, 不重视




    indifference
    [ noun ]
    1. unbiased impartial unconcern

    2. <noun.feeling>
    3. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

    4. <noun.feeling>
    5. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

    6. <noun.attribute>
    7. the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern

    8. <noun.attribute>


    Indifference \In*dif"fer*ence\, n. [L. indifferentia similarity,
    lack of difference: cf. F. indiff['e]rence.]
    1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a
    difference; lack of sufficient importance to constitute a
    difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

    2. Passableness; mediocrity.

    3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or
    bias.

    He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as
    ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign.
    --Sir T. More.

    4. Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is
    presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire
    indifference to all that occurs.

    Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is
    conversant about objects which are so far from being
    of an indifferent nature, that they are highest
    importance. --Addison.

    Syn: Carelessness; negligence; unconcern; apathy;
    insensibility; coldness; lukewarmness.

    1. 'I'll pick it up and put it straight in the box.' The general indifference towards next month's elections is partly because the political parties have yet to launch their campaigns.
    2. If management treats employees' concerns with indifference, then employees will not care about the customers' complaints.
    3. The obstacle Chile faces in Washington is not protectionism, but indifference. An FTA with Chile would let Washington signal to the rest of Latin America that it supports democratic regimes with open economies.
    4. Our adversaries are despair and resignation and indifference and complacency." Dukakis acknowledged it will take "the largest voter turnout in American history" for Democrats to win in November.
    5. After 15 years of chipping away at the national indifference to the homeless, Snyder and others at the forefront of the struggle may finally be gaining ground. Recent polls indicate a greater desire to help others.
    6. "I think I've learned in the last six years there are three great evils in this world: communism, fascism and indifference," he says.
    7. London said that if Steinberg is delusional, then he cannot be guilty of "depraved indifference" in Lisa's death, as prosecutors charge, and the jury hearing the murder trial should be told this.
    8. But, as President Lech Walesa of Poland remarked during his visit to the UK, 'the political iron curtain should not be replaced by a silver curtain of indifference'.
    9. Past rivalry over Somalia has been replaced by near indifference. In the seven months since General Siad Barre abandoned the capital to competing factions, the country has descended into a state of anarchy from which recovery will be a forbidding task.
    10. On the contrary, like most people in the village, his attitude was indifference tinged with a faint hope for improvement.
    11. The demonstrations were the latest in a two-week series of strikes by students fed up with campus violence, overcrowded classrooms, and what they see as government indifference to the poor condition of their schools.
    12. But she cited evidence of "a widespread attitude of indifference to miners' health" that allowed the tampering.
    13. Further bombing of Mr Saddam's forces will contrast sharply with the perceived Allied indifference to the fate of Moslems in former Yugoslavia.
    14. But if he initially feigned indifference, Mr. Fuqua and his aides in the next few days were indefatigable.
    15. We don't need a national curriculum, or national testing either. Both initiatives arise from ignorance of how people learn, or deliberate indifference to it.
    16. A requested indictment for second-degree murder, intentional or through depraved indifference, was possible, Clark said.
    17. This is a matter of financial indifference to vessel operators as long as we know what the ground rules are.
    18. Many of those involved in the fight against AIDS are lauding cartoonist Garry Trudeau's comic depiction of the ignorance, unfounded fears and public indifference that sometimes surround the disease.
    19. Political analysts attribute the government's backtracking to pressure from big banks, public indifference and the fear that Switzerland's ability to keep pace with the liberalization of world financial markets could be hampered by new legislation.
    20. It's about right and wrong." Juror Victoria Bryers said Wise was convicted of first-degree assault because the jury felt he showed depraved indifference to the jogger's plight.
    21. He denounces what he contends is President Bush's indifference to the issues he cares about; he contributed to last year's election of Democrat Harris Wofford to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.
    22. Montand had told him to use his name in his application to the Plaza Athenee Hotel, but Maccioni did not know that his friend was not called Livi in France and was struck by the indifference of the hotel manager at his interview.
    23. Many Germans let themselves be blinded and seduced by the Nazis. Many through their indifference made the crimes possible.
    24. Nor is this indifference to others a mere human failing in a great public man.
    25. One possible explanation for this indifference: When things go wrong with these industries' operations, they usually don't endanger people's lives, deprive consumers of their life savings or foul the environment.
    26. The center's approach contrasts sharply with the government's, where a maze of agencies offer ever more specialized "boutique" services to the poor, who often flounder under the complexity and indifference of the system.
    27. In his letter to French Ambassador Emmanuel de Margerie, Sen. Helms protested France's apparent indifference to the consequences of the Ratier-Forest shipments.
    28. He faces charges of murder by arson and murder by depraved indifference for each of the victims, plus two counts of arson and one count each of assault and attempted murder.
    29. Bush said that he will work to ensure "that bigotry and indifference to the disadvantaged will find no safe home on our shores," and that King's dreams for the children of America will be fulfilled. "This must be our mission together.
    30. The judge will tell them that if they find Steinberg showed "depraved indifference" to the first-grader's life, they may convict him of second-degree murder, even if he never hit the child. He could face up to 25 years to life.
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