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imperfectadjective(NOT PERFECT)C1damaged,containingproblems, or not having something: 有缺陷的，不完美的；不完全的 We'relivingin an imperfectworld.我们生活的世界并不完美。 Iexplainedas well as I wasable, given my own imperfectunderstandingof thesituation.考虑到我自己对情况也不完全清楚，我已经尽我所能地作了解释。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesFaults and mistakes - (that's)yourhard luckidiom
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- blemish
- error
- failing
- false move
- faux pas
- flaw
- malaprop
- miscue
- misfunction
- misperception
- misprint
- that's/it'syourfuneral!idiom
- typo
- wardrobe malfunction
- weakness
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: imperfectadjective(GRAMMAR)languagespecializedThe imperfectformof averbdescribesanactionin the past that wascontinuousor was notcompleted: 未完成过去时；过去进行时 In thesentence"He washitby acaras he wascrossingtheroad", theverb"cross" isinthe imperfectform.在句子 He was hit by a car as he was crossing the road 中，动词 cross 用的是未完成过去时。 - First,ourFrenchteachershowedus how to put theverb'fermer' into the imperfecttense.
- 'When I came in Jack wasreadinghisbook' is asentencethat uses the imperfect, i.e. 'wasreading' .
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesLinguistics: grammatical terms - ablative
- apposition
- appositive
- appositively
- attributively
- concord
- demonstrative
- feminine
- intensifier
- nominative
- particle
- predicatively
- premodifier
- quantifier
- regularity
- singular
- stative
- syntactic
- syntax
- uncountable
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs the imperfectlanguagespecialized in somelanguages, theformof averbthat is used for anactionthat has not beencompletedin the past, used, forexample, to refer to anactionthat washappeningwhen it wassuddenlyinterrupted, or todescribeanexistingsituationat thebeginningof astory: 未完成过去时；过去进行时In thesentence"He washitby acaras he wascrossingtheroad", theverb"cross" isinthe imperfect.在句子 He was hit by a car as he was crossing the road 中，动词 cross 用的是未完成过去时。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesLinguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs - accusative
- art
- bare infinitive
- bent
- continuous
- infinitive
- non-progressive
- passive
- passivization
- pluperfect
- present
- present participle
- progressive
- subjunctive
- the active voice
- the first person
- the future perfect
- the past continuous
- the present continuous
- the third person
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Linguistics: grammatical terms imperfect| American Dictionarynotperfector notcomplete: Ourruleoflawis still imperfect, but it’sbetterthan having nolawsat all. imperfection
[C]Investigatorssuspecttheenginebrokebecause of atinyimperfection in one of theparts. imperfect| Business EnglishPRODUCTIONdamagedor not madecorrectly: Yolkproductsare made from thecracked,deformed, orotherwiseimperfecteggsthat don't make it past quality-controlstandards. Examplesofimperfectimperfect The physical nature of such resources as forests and fisheries, however, makes exclusion difficult to enforce and often results inimperfectenforcement.From theCambridge English Corpus Three problems surface under the assumption of incomplete andimperfectinformation and positive information and transaction costs.From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, a short test interval is likely to be animperfectproxy for seroconversion illness, although it may be sufficient for most purposes.From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, we need alternative knowledge representation techniques for dealing with the problem ofimperfectinformation.From theCambridge English Corpus First-best arguments, by contrast, see direct democracy asimperfectin one way or another, and see indirect or representative institutions as a politically superior alternative.From theCambridge English Corpus Our knowledge of the transcendent is alwaysimperfectand fragmentary.From theCambridge English Corpus In general, ritual commands fall into this category, since they specify how animperfectduty of worship should be carried out.From theCambridge English Corpus They recognized that the predictions of the features would beimperfect, but this need not fatally degrade their prediction of function.From theCambridge English Corpus Significantly, both authors reveal that they are conscious - and not simply in retrospect - that such enactments are 'wrong' orimperfect.From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, interview assessment of chronic fatigue in a general population sample isimperfectand there were undoubtedly both false positive and negative classification errors.From theCambridge English Corpus We focus on the determinants of this inefficiency when enforcement isimperfect.From theCambridge English Corpus We consider a model of investment when enforcement isimperfect.From theCambridge English Corpus The analysis focused on the use of theimperfectand the morphological marking of state verbs.From theCambridge English Corpus The crucial feature of the model is that the access to credit isimperfectand asymmetric.From theCambridge English Corpus Here we consider a variety of (imperfect) measures of the intermediation shocks that drive our model.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. |