| 单词 | circumspect |
| 释义 | circumspect adjective formaluk/ˈsɜː.kəm.spekt/us/ˈsɝː.kəm.spekt/carefulnot to takerisks: 小心的；谨慎的；审慎的Officials were circumspectaboutsaying what thetalkshadachieved.官员们对谈判所取得的成果持谨慎态度。 Cautious and vigilant
Examplesofcircumspectcircumspect Because of the censors, audience dissatisfaction could be mentioned in only the mostcircumspectway. From theCambridge English Corpus Its paragraphs are longer and it is altogether more quantitative, more rigorous and morecircumspectthan the rest of the report. From theCambridge English Corpus In a depressed or less certain market, both borrowers and lenders must adopt a morecircumspectattitude. From theCambridge English Corpus We must becircumspectin drawing conclusions from a study based on one village. From theCambridge English Corpus Into the nineteenth century theatres continued to provide a space for socialising, but of a morecircumspectvariety. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, they are existentially estimated in the verycircumspectact of seeing as a spatial mode of encountering beings in de-distancing. From theCambridge English Corpus But environmentalists have been a little morecircumspectsince 1990 about predicting the exhaustion of minerals. From theCambridge English Corpus Others, however, were a little morecircumspectand only referred when there was a clear diagnosis. From theCambridge English Corpus The rest of the book, however, has a morecircumspecttone, refusing to claim the ' perfect validity ' (p. 140) of results. From theCambridge English Corpus All this was a step in the right direction qua later developments :circumspect, undogmatic and inquisitive. From theCambridge English Corpus The wisdom and expertise shared in this book should convince us all of the need to be morecircumspectin our thinking and practice. From theCambridge English Corpus Moderates who represented working-class constituencies, however, had to be morecircumspectand balance general support for ' economy ' with responsiveness to specific working-class issues. From theCambridge English Corpus Gerontologists may becircumspectabout their claims, but the social expectation of the science of old age is that it will find ways to eliminate the very thing it studies. From theCambridge English Corpus Menn is careful andcircumspect, attempting to avoid such distortions : to me he seems successful but, ultimately, readers must make their own judgement. From theCambridge English Corpus A nation with problems of this magnitude might have been morecircumspectin its plans and should certainly have been less secure of its fitness to lead. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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